Síndrome de Kartagener em um cão (Canis lupus familiaris) da raça Cocker Spaniel Inglês

• Main Authors: Souza Junior,P., Silva,S.S.R., Martins,M.C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Escola de Veterinária 2011
• Subjects: dog; Kartagener's syndrome; situs inversus totalis; computed tomography; Canis lupus
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-09352011000300035

Kartagener is syndrome is a rare disorder described in dogs determined by the triad situs inversus totalis, chronic sinusitis, and bronchial disease. The clinical signs of chronic respiratory and other less common presentations (such as hydrocephalus and subfertility) are due to a concomitant ciliary dysfunction. This article describes the clinical, radiographic, and computed tomography findings and treatment in a dog affected by Kartagener is syndrome since early months of life. This is the first case report of this syndrome in a domestic dog in Brazil and the only known scientific report in the English Cocker Spaniel.