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===[[Degenerative Joint Disease]] ===
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#redirect[[:Category:Joints - Degenerative Pathology]]
 
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====[[Patellar Luxation]]====
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====[[Atlantoaxial Luxation]]====
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====[[Temporomandibular Luxation]]====
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===[[Calve Legg-Perthe's Disease]]===
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===[[Degenerative Arthropathy]]===
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===[[Joint Trauma]]===
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===Nutritional diseases===
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====[[Hypervitaminosis A]]====
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===[[Disc Protrusion]]===
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===[[Cervical Spinal Stenosis]]===
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===[[Cervicospinal Arthropathy]]===
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===Spondylosis===
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[[Image:Spondylosis.jpg|right|thumb|100px|<small><center>Spondylosis (Image sourced from Bristol Biomed Image Archive with permission)</center></small>]]
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*Often in bulls and dogs, occurs also in horses, cats and pigs
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*[[Musculoskeletal Terminology - Pathology|Osteophyte]] formation on ventral aspect of vertebrae
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**Often around lumbar region
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**Adjacent to intervertebral spaces
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**Varies in size - small spurs -> 'bridges' between vertebrae
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**May extend over few vertebrae
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*Pathogenesis:
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**Repeated abnormal movement between joints -> stress
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** -> Degeneration of [[Joints - Anatomy & Physiology#Fibrocartilagenous joints|''annulus fibrosis'']]
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** -> [[Musculoskeletal Terminology - Pathology|Osteophyte]] formation
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*In dogs usually no symptoms
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*In bulls may cause inability to mount
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*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===
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*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===
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*From glucocorticoids injected into joint as antiinflammatories
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*Injection sometimes causes rapid progression of degeneration
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*Glucocortyicois suppress anabolic effect of chondrocytes -> reduction of cartilage matrix syhthesis -> proteoglycan depletion -> slower repair
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[[Category:Joints - Degenerative Pathology]]
 
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