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Large Animal Neurological Diseases and Disorder
CN, cerebellar, and atlas/axis disorders
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Veterinary Medicine
Graduate
02/21/2012

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Term
Facial nerve paralysis: central
Definition
-unilateral
-ear drop
-inability to close the eye
-keratitis
-muzzle pulled to the unaffected side
Term
Peripheral facial nerve paralysis
Definition
-eyelid and aural movements are normal
-etiology: CN VIII or vestibular apparatus damaged
Term
Clinical signs peripheral facial nerve paralysis
Definition
-head tilt
-ataxia
-drifting to affected side
-horizontal nystagmus
Term
Vestibular disease: dx, etiology, clinical signs
Definition
-continuous head tilt to the left
-reluctant to move-> drifted towards the side of the head tilt
-Dx: skull rads, titers for protozoal myelitis
-Etiology: head trauma, stylohyoid osteoarthropathy, pathologic fracture extends into petrous temporal bone, EPM

-Clinical signs: vestibular signs, additional CN V through XII (VII most frequently)
Term
Temorohypoid Osteoarthropay
Definition
-CN VII, VIII deficits
-Central corneal ulcer
Term
Vestibular disease: tx
Definition
-anti-inflammatory drugs: DMSO, corticosteroids, NSAIDS
-antibiotics-TMP-S for otitis; Pen/Gent for skull fractures
-surgery: ceratohyoidectomy
Term
Guttural pouch empyema
Definition
-lesions can involve internal carotid artery, facial, vagus, and glossopharyngeal nn and cranial sympathetic trunk
-hemorrhage
-Dysfunction: CN VII, IX, X, and XI
Term
Dysphagia
Definition
-more often is due to non-neurologic disorder
-neurologic dysphagia involve: brainstem nuclear regions, glosohparyngeal and vagus nerves
-severe forebrain diseases: swallowing reflexes are intact
-Ddx: inflammatory, toxic, physical non-neurological
Term
Cerebellar disease
Definition
-there is ataxia
-there is no weakness
-dysmetric
-jerky head bobbing
-intention tremor
-absent or inconsisten menace
Term
Cerebellar abiotrophy
Definition
-Arabian foals
-Jersel, Shorthorn, Angus, Holstein
-signs develop at 1-6 months
Term
Cerebellar abiotrophy path
Definition
-autosomal recessive
-degeneration and depletion of Purkinje and granular cells
-genetic test available for Arabians
Term
Cerebellar hypoplasia
Definition
-associated with BVD infection
-clinical signs apparent at birth
-small cerebellum
Term
Occipitoatlantoaxial malformation
Definition
-familiar occipitalization of the atlas with atlantalization of the axis
-ARabian (mainly), also Friesian, Saddlebred, Appaloosa
-Three clinical presentations:
1. dead at birth
2. tetraparesis at birth
3. progressive ataxia as foals
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