German Shepherd (Alsatian)
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The German Shepherd breed was developed in Germany and has since become a popular work and house dog worldwide.
Disease predisposition
- Aortic stenosis
- Mitral dysplasia
- Pericardial effusion
- Persistent left cranial vena cava
- Persistent right aortic arch
- Tricuspid dysplasia
- Ventricular tachycardia
- Pyoderma
- Nasal folliculitis
- Pododermatitis
- Malassezia dermatitis
- Pythiosis
- Contact allergy
- Food allergy
- Pemphigus erythematosus
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Seborrhea
- Ehler-Danlos syndrome
- Lymphedema
- Vitiligo
- Nasal depigmentation
- Acral lick dermatitis
- Zinc-responsive dermatosis
- Chronic superficial keratitis
- Lupoid onchodystrophy
- Calcinosis circumscripta
- Vasculitis
- Uterine leiomyoma
- Dwarfism
- Hyperadrenocorticism
- Insulinoma
- Hyperparathyroidism
- Hypoparathyroidism
- Megaesophagus
- Vascular ring anomaly
- Hiatus hernia
- Gastric dilatation-volvulus
- Lymphocytic-plasmacytic enteritis
- Eosinophilic gastroenteritis
- Perianal fistula
- Chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis associated with a transient erythropoietic protoporphyria[2]
- Portosystemic shunt
- Hepatic hemangiosarcoma
- Gut mucosal IgA deficiency[3]
- Hemophilia A
- Hemophilia B
- Immune-mediated thrombocytopenia
- Von Willebrand’s disease
- Aspergillosis
- Spondylosis deformans
- Discospondylitis
- Elbow dysplasia
- Hip dysplasia
- Discospondylitis
- Panosteitis
- Bone cyst
- Glycogen storage disease type III
- Masticatory myopathy
- Polyarthritis
- Myasthenia gravis
- Sebaceous adenoma
- Trichoepithelioma
- Microgliomatosis
- Anal sac adenocarcinoma
- Cutaneous hemangioma
- Cutaneous hemangiosarcoma
- Hemangiopericytoma
- Non-epitheliotropic lymphoma
- Keratoacanthoma
- Myxoma/myxosarcoma
- Hemangiosarcoma
- Renal cystadenocarcinoma
- Insulinoma
- Limbal melanoma
- Seminoma
- Thymoma
- vestibular disease
- Congenital deafness
- Seizures
- Myasthenia gravis
- Giant axonal neuropathy
- Degenerative myelopathy
- Hyperesthesia syndrome
- Dermoid
- Nictitating membrane prolapse
- Plasmoma
- Corneal dystrophy
- Cataract
- Lens luxation
- Retinal dysplasia
- Optic nerve hypoplasia
- Optic nerve coloboma
- Urethral sphincter mechanism incompetence
- Silica urolithiasis
- Vaginal hyperplasia
- Seminoma
- Cutaneous-renal vasculopathy
- Swimmer syndrome
References
- ↑ Dogs in depth
- ↑ Kroeze EJ et al (2006) Transient erythropoietic protoporphyria associated with chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis in a cohort of German shepherd dogs. Vet Rec 158(4):120-124
- ↑ Littler RM et al (2006) Total and relative deficiency of gut mucosal IgA in German shepherd dogs demonstrated by faecal analysis. Vet Rec 158(10):334-341
