DACHSHUND

• Sick sinus syndrome
• Patent ductus arteriosus
• Alopecia areata
• Pododermatitis
• Malassezia dermatitis
• Food hypersensitivity
• Pemphigus foliaceous
• Canine linear IgA dermatosis
• Oestrogen-responsive dermatosis
• Canine pinnal alopecia (pattern baldness)
• Primary seborrhoea
• Black hair follicular dysplasia
• Idiopathic sterile nodular panniculitis
• Colour-dilution alopecia
• Acanthosis nigricans
• Ehler-Danlos syndrome
• Canine ear margin dermatosis
• Callus dermatitis/pyoderma
• Canine juvenile cellulitis
• Idiopathic chronic ulcerative blepharitis
• Onychodystrophy
• Vasculitis
• Hypothyroidism
• Hyperadrenocorticism: pituitary-dependent (PDH) and adrenocortical tumour (AT)
• Diabetes mellitus
• Haemorrhagic gastroenteritis
• Undefined immunodeficiency syndrome
• Immune-mediated thrombocytopaenia
• Pneumocystis carinii infection – May reflect a concurrent immunodeficiency syndrome
• Inguinal/scrotal herniation
• Pes varus
• Prognathia
• Spondylosis deformans
• Anal sac adenocarcinoma
• Lipoma
• Liposarcoma
• Mast cell tumours
• Canine cutaneous histiocytoma
• Pituitary tumour resulting in hyperadrenocorticism
• Adrenocortical tumour resulting in hyperadrenocorticism
• Limbal melanoma
• Congenital deafness (Dappled Dachshunds)
• Intervertebral disc disease
• Lysosomal storage disease – ceroid lipofuscinosis
• Sensory neuropathy (Long-haired Dachschunds)
• Narcolepsy-cataplexy
• Atlantoaxial subluxation (Miniature Dachshunds)
• Dermoid
• Entropion (usually lower lids) –  Uncommon in the USA
• Distichiasis (Miniature Long-haired Dachshund) – High incidence (>80% in the UK)
• Chronic superficial keratitis (pannus)
• Refractory corneal ulceration
• Corneal endothelial dystrophy
• Limbal melanoma
• Glaucoma
• Persistent pupillary membranes (PPM)
• Cataract (Miniature Smooth and Wire-haired)
• Retinal detachment with abnormal vitreous
• Generalised progressive retinal atrophy (GPRA) (Miniature Long-haired)
• Generalised progressive retinal atrophy(GPRA) (Miniature Smooth-haired)
• Optic nerve hypoplasia
• Multiple ocular defects (associated with merling) – Defects include microphalmia, microcornea, cataract and colobomas
• Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
• Hypochondroplasia – Accepted as breed standard
• Urethral sphincter mechanism incompetence (causing urinary incontinence)
• Cystine urolithiasis
• Cryptorchidism (Miniature Dachshund)
• Pneumonia due to Pneumocystis carinii infection – May reflect a concurrent immunodeficiency syndrome