Cerebrovascular accident in dogs – Case report

Abstract

A male dog, German shepherd, aged 14, was treated at the CECCA - PUC Betim (Animal Clinic and Surgery), with prostration, decreased appetite, and in lateral recumbency. Clinical examination revealed hyperthermia, severe dehydration, tachycardia, moist rattle, secretion bilateral nostrils, cachexia, and increased reflexes in the hindlimbs. Starting clinical signs was suspected: Stroke, Distemper and Tumor Cerebral. The cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is a rare disease in dogs and is usually caused by ischemia or bleeding within the brain parenchyma. The diagnosis is based primarily on neurological signs, delirium, coma, paralysis, unilateral or bilateral, was confirmed by computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, or only a tissue diagnosis and autopsy. Treatment includes prevention of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, and after the framework installed, you can make use of thrombolytics, vasodilators, cerebral, steroids and vitamin B complex Concluded that the histopathological differential diagnosis is essential for distemper, brain neoplasms