Onset Of Hd

[Gretel]

Just interested to hear what others make of this..... A 7 year old dog fit and healthy, exercised regularly and never shown any sign of lameness had surgery to remove a fatty lump from his chest. Since the op he's been in pain and not walking properly. Vet has rayed today and diagnosed HD. When he was taken in for the op the owner was told he was in good health and in the prime of his life. I've never heard of HD onset like this but wondering about others experiences,

[persephone]

is the vet who Xrayed experienced in doing Xrays specifically for HD ?

is it a real HD..or could a hip have been dislocated when he was positioned incorrectly on the operating table?

Did he slip or anything as he was coming around from the anaesthetic, maybe?

[Gretel]

is the vet who Xrayed experienced in doing Xrays specifically for HD ?

is it a real HD..or could a hip have been dislocated when he was positioned incorrectly on the operating table?

Did he slip or anything as he was coming around from the anaesthetic, maybe?

The vet has denied anything happened during/after the op but it's something that we'd thought of too. It's not a vet I know much about. Not one I'd have recommended.

[persephone]

take photos/video .. and the Xrays ...and head off somewhere where a specialist can have a look , maybe???

poor boy

[Rebanne]

is the vet who Xrayed experienced in doing Xrays specifically for HD ?

is it a real HD..or could a hip have been dislocated when he was positioned incorrectly on the operating table?

Did he slip or anything as he was coming around from the anaesthetic, maybe?

The vet has denied anything happened during/after the op but it's something that we'd thought of too. It's not a vet I know much about. Not one I'd have recommended.

of course, but every time I have seen my dogs moved off the table, they were all lifted off by their legs, except for c-sections. Thankfully a lot now have hydraulic tables but I wonder how many don't

[Gretel]

Yes and he is quite a hefty boy.

[Erny]

I'd go a second opinion.

I had a dog (my Avatar girl "Kal" bhcs) who suffered a major blockage. Whilst under heavy sedation she was x-rayed. As an aside and coincidence to what the x-rays showed up for the blockage, it was also reported to me that she had a heart so enlarged that they didn't know if she would survive the surgery necessary to clear the blockage. She did (several following, in fact, but that's a whole other story). Scared out of my wits every time she had to undergo these series of surgeries for things that just kept going wrong, I finally got her well enough from that to be able to get her to a heart specialist to investigate heart medication which I had previously been informed she would definitely need. These Vets even backed up their diagnosis after conducting a "necessary" ECG.

Heart specialist took one look at the x-rays and said "I want to take more x-rays". Puzzled, but I went along with it. More x-rays revealed perfect heart. It was the manner in which my dog had been laid on the x-ray table and the length of time she'd been left there that gave the impression that her heart was grossly enlarged. Further basic tests confirmed perfect heart, save for a minor murmur which was well known about for years but was so minor not to be alarming.

My dog's heart was not the reason and had nothing to do with the reason why I eventually had to give her her wings, some years later.

Second opinion.

Edited March 10, 2014 by Erny

[Gretel]

Thanks :)