Diseases

Esophageal cancer in dogs

Esophageal cancer in dogs is very rare

Esophageal cancer in dogs is rarely observed but, when so, it is malignant and metastatic. It is most often due to metastases of thyroid tumors or tumors of the base of the dog’s heart. Esophageal tumors in dogs result in swallowing difficulties with regurgitation, breathing difficulties associated with “aspiration”, accompanied by “false routes”, that is …

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exercise intolerance in dogs

Exercise intolerance in dogs: Genetics or other causes?

Exercise intolerance in dogs can be caused by specific health issues but has been mostly linked with the Exercise induced collapse (EIC) disease. This is a neuromuscular system disease characterized by unusually severe and disabling fatigability occurring during physical exercise, which is usually intense. It is a hereditary disease, therefore transmissible to the offspring. Originally …

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