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Year 2011 - Volume 31, Number 4
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Functional recovery in dogs with thoracolumbar intervertebral disk disease without deep pain perception: 37 cases (2002-2010), 31(4):345-349
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ABSTRACT.- Santos R.P., Mazzanti A., Beckmann D.V., Berté L., Ripplinger A., Neto D.P. & Baumhardt R. 2011. [Functional recovery in dogs with thoracolumbar intervertebral disk disease without deep pain perception: 37 cases (2002-2010).] Recuperação funcional em cães com doença do disco intervertebral toracolombar sem percepção à dor profunda: 37 casos (2002-2010). Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira 31(4):345-349. Departamento de Clínica de Pequenos Animais, Centro de Ciências Rurais, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Av. Roraima 1000, Camobi, Santa Maria, RS 97105-900, Brazil. E-mail: alexamazza@yahoo.com.br
The aim of this study was to evaluate functional recovery in 37 cases with diagnostic of thoracolumbar intervertebral disk disease in dogs without deep pain perception (more than 48 hours) and did not underwent surgical treatment from 2002 to 2010. The following data were obtained: Breed, age, sex, neuroanatomic localization, loss of deep pain perception, duration of clinical signs, functional recovery, deep pain recovery, recurrence and euthanasia or death. A satisfactory functional recovery was observed in 11 dogs (55%), mostly between 30-60 days after the beginning of the clinics signal (six dogs). Two of 11 dogs with satisfactory functional recovery did not recovered deep pain perception. The results showed that dogs with presumptive diagnoses of thoracolumbar intervertebral disk disease with more than 48 hours and that did not underwent surgical treatment are capable of a functional satisfactory recovery and should be waited 30 days after clinical signs begin to establish a prognosis on the recovery of voluntaries movements. |
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