A great day for Ribblebrook as our Stud dog & Bitches passed their routine eye exam and were cleared of Gonioscopy, an important hereditary test for your dogs especially those bashing brambles for 5 months of the year 🍃
The tests were carried out at our sponsors clinic ‘Fit & Fertile’ in Catforth, Preston by James Oliver - Veterinary Ophthalmology. A very well run and organised day with brilliant hosts and knowledgeable vets! Who will hopefully be holding more eye clinics in the future, and offering discounted reproductive services during the clinic 👌🏼
What is Gonioscopy?
Gonioscopy is a type of eye exam that looks for signs that a dog is affected by a painful and blinding disease known as primary glaucoma. How much the eye is affected is recorded and given as a grade. This grade can be used to help make health focused breeding decisions that reduce the risk of producing puppies that grow up to be affected by primary glaucoma.
What is primary glaucoma?
Primary glaucoma is an inherited condition caused by a build-up of pressure in the eye. This increased pressure occurs because the eye is not able to properly drain away enough of the fluid made inside.
Primary glaucoma can be divided into two types:
Primary open angle glaucoma (POAG)
Primary angle closure/ closed angle glaucoma (PCAG).
What are the effects & causes?
Clinical signs of the primary angle closure/ closed angle glaucoma are:
depression
signs of eye pain, such as excessive blinking and avoiding bright light
cloudiness at the front of the eye
a reddened eye
a dilated non-responsive pupil
blindness
Primary glaucoma is caused by a build-up of pressure that occurs because some of the fluids that are produced in the eye can’t drain away properly.
Primary angle closure/ closed angle glaucoma is linked to a problem with the drainage angle. This is the angle between the iris (the coloured part of the eye) and the cornea (the clear window part of the eye). This issue with the angle is termed pectinate ligament abnormality (PLA), but is also known as goniodysgenesis (gonio = angle, dysgenesis = defective development).
How primary angle closure/ closed angle glaucoma is inherited is not fully understood, but researchers believe that it may be controlled by a number of different genes and also influenced by some factors that a dog may be exposed to during its life.
The way in which these sorts of conditions are inherited is not straight forward, and so they are called complex inherited disorders.
Above copied from the KC website
We would like to thank Fit & Fertile for their continued support of our dogs in all health and reproductive aspects. With the help of their Supplements, alongside a high quality diet, the dogs are looking and feeling both fit and fertile!
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