CLINICAL SYMPTOMS, HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS AND DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSTICS FOR DOGS HYPOTHYREOSIS IN AGE ASPECT
Abstract
The research of clinical symptoms, haematological parameters and found differential diagnosis in dogs for hypothyroidism. Established that hypothyroidism is correlated with age in dogs. In most patients the hypofunction of gland manifests itself between the ages of 3 to 8 years. Hypothyroidism is combined with flow which is characterised A-vitamin deficiency and anemia. Nonspecific laboratory tests of hypothyroidism is erythrotcytopenia and hyperensymemia. Differential diagnosis of hypothyroidism is to set of some internal diseases in dogs, in which “euthyreoid syndrome” or so-called phenomenon of “normal disease thyroid gland” develops. Thyroid tumors recorded in dogs older than 9 years
Keywords
dogs, the thyroid gland, iodine, metabolism, hormones, clinical symptoms, hypothyroidism, differential diagnostics