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===[[Degenerative Joint Disease]] ===
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====[[Patellar Luxation]]====
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
====[[Atlantoaxial Luxation]]====
 
 
 
====[[Temporomandibular Luxation]]====
 
 
 
 
 
===[[Calve Legg-Perthe's Disease]]===
 
 
 
 
 
===[[Degenerative Arthropathy]]===
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
===[[Joint Trauma]]===
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
===Nutritional diseases===
 
 
 
====[[Hypervitaminosis A]]====
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
===[[Disc Protrusion]]===
 
 
 
===[[Cervical Spinal Stenosis]]===
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
===Cervicospinal arthropathy===
 
 
 
* = "'''Wobbler'''" in horses
 
*Usually presents in first two years of life
 
*Mainly in fast growing thouroughbreds
 
*Most common site is C3-C4, can occur anywhere
 
*Abnormal laxity between the vertebrae + cervical vertebral malformation may be evident
 
*[[Musculoskeletal Terminology - Pathology|Osteophyte formation]] at edges of synovial components of joint
 
*Some due to stenosis of neural canal later in life (1-4 years of age)
 
*Clinical signs:
 
**Ataxia - hindlimbs more affected
 
*Presumed cause is rapid growth
 
 
 
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===Spondylosis===
 
[[Image:Spondylosis.jpg|right|thumb|100px|<small><center>Spondylosis (Image sourced from Bristol Biomed Image Archive with permission)</center></small>]]
 
 
 
*Often in bulls and dogs, occurs also in horses, cats and pigs
 
*[[Musculoskeletal Terminology - Pathology|Osteophyte]] formation on ventral aspect of vertebrae
 
**Often around lumbar region
 
**Adjacent to intervertebral spaces
 
**Varies in size - small spurs -> 'bridges' between vertebrae
 
**May extend over few vertebrae
 
*Pathogenesis:
 
**Repeated abnormal movement between joints -> stress
 
** -> Degeneration of [[Joints - Anatomy & Physiology#Fibrocartilagenous joints|''annulus fibrosis'']]
 
** -> [[Musculoskeletal Terminology - Pathology|Osteophyte]] formation
 
*In dogs usually no symptoms
 
*In bulls may cause inability to mount
 
*In severe cases repeated damage may progress to recurrent posterior weakness and ataxia in conjuction with fractures of spondylitic and vertebral bone
 
 
 
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===Cranial cruciate ligament rupture===
 
 
 
*Autoantibodies against collagens seen in the joint fluid – no relationship to the disease (ie: not an autoimmune disease) – can be seen in any joint disease
 
 
 
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===Steroid arthropathy===
 
 
 
*From glucocorticoids injected into joint as antiinflammatories
 
*Injection sometimes causes rapid progression of degeneration
 
*Glucocortyicois suppress anabolic effect of chondrocytes -> reduction of cartilage matrix syhthesis -> proteoglycan depletion -> slower repair
 
 
 
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Latest revision as of 16:07, 3 March 2011