GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG

• Aortic stenosis
• Mitral dysplasia
• Pericardial effusion
• Persistent left cranial vena cava
• Persistent right aortic arch
• Tricuspid dysplasia
• Mucocutaneous pyoderma
• Nasal folliculitis/furunculosis
• Pododermatitis
• German Shepherd Dog folliculitis, furunculosis and cellulitis
• Malassezia dermatitis
• Pythiosis
• Contact hypersensitivity
• Food hypersensitivity
• Pemphigus erythematosus
• Systemic lupus erythematosus
• Discoid lupus erythematosus
• Primary seborrhoea
• Hypopigmentary disorders
• Ehler-Danlos syndrome
• Disorder of the footpads in German Shepherd
• Focal metatarsal fistulation of German Shepherd Dogs
• Multiple collagenous naevi
• Familial vasculopathy
• Primary lymphoedema
• Vitiligo
• Nasal depigmentation – Also known as Dudley nose
• Acral lick dermatitis
• Zinc-responsive dermatosis
• Idiopathic chronic ulcerative blepharitis
• Symmetric lupoid onchodystrophy
• Idiopathic onychomadesis
• Fibropruritic nodule
• Calcinosis circumscripta
• Vasculitis
• Greying
• Pyotraumatic folliculitis
• Skin tumours
• Pituitary dwarfism
• Hyperadrenocorticism: pituitary-dependent (PDH) and adrenocortical tumour (AT)
• Insulinoma
• Primary hyperparathyroidism
• Primary hypoparathyroidism
• Oropharyngeal neoplasia
• Congenital idiopathic megaoesophagus
• Secondary megaoesophagus
• Vascular ring anomaly
• Gastro-oesophageal intussusception
• Gastric dilatation-volvulus
• Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO)
• Lymphocytic-plasmacytic enteritis
• Small intestinal volvulus
• Eosinophilic gastroenteritis, enteritis and enterocolitis
• Chronic idiopathic (lymphocytic-plasmacytic) colitis
• Perianal fistula
• Idiopathic hepatic fibrosis
• Congenital portosystemic shunt
• Hepatic haemangiosarcoma
• Selective IgA deficiency
• Haemophilia A
• Haemophilia B
• Immune-mediated thrombocytopaenia
• Von Willebrand’s disease
• Systemic lupus erythematosus
• Aspergillosis
• Infectious skin disease
• Spondylosis deformans
• Cartilaginous exostosis
• Elbow dysplasia
• Hip dysplasia
• Lumbosacral disease
• Panosteitis
• Bone cyst
• Glycogen storage disease type III
• Hypotrophy of the pectineus muscle
• Masticatory myopathy
• Fibrotic myopathy of semitendinosus
• Gracilis contracture
• Canine idiopathic polyarthritis
• Transitional lumbosacral vertebra – This breed is greatly over-represented
• Myasthenia gravis
• Sweat gland tumour
• Trichoepithelioma
• Anal sac adenocarcinoma
• Cutaneous haemangioma
• Cutaneous haemangiosarcoma
• Haemangiopericytoma
• Non-epitheliotropic lymphoma
• Keratoacanthoma
• Myxoma/myxosarcoma
• Nasal cavity tumours
• Haemangiosarcoma (e.g. cardiac, splenic, hepatic)
• Colorectal neoplasia
• Renal cystadenocarcinomas
• Insulinoma
• Pituitary tumour resulting in hyperadrenocorticism
• Adrenocortical tumour resulting in hyperadrenocorticism
• Lymphosarcoma (malignant lymphoma)
• Limbal melanoma
• Canine anterior uveal melanoma
• Testicular neoplasia
• Thymoma
• Congenital vestibular disease
• Congenital deafness
• Glycogenosis (glycogen storage disease)
• Intervertebral disc disease
• Discospondylitis
• True epilepsy
• Acquired myasthenia gravis
• Giant axonal neuropathy
• Lumbosacral stenosis
• Degenerative myelopathy
• Hyperaesthesia syndrome
• Ocular conditions
• Dermoid
• Eversion of the cartilage of the nictitating membrane
• Plasma cell infiltration of the nictitating membrane (plasmoma)
• Chronic superficial keratitis (pannus)
• Refractory corneal ulceration
• Corneal dystrophy
• Limbal melanoma
• Canine anterior uveal melanoma
• Cataract
• Congenital cataract
• Lens luxation
• Multifocal retinal dysplasia
• Micropapilla
• Optic nerve hypoplasia
• Optic nerve coloboma
• Pseudopapilloedema
• Pronounced eosinophilic response
• Blood group – This breed is often DEA 1.1 and 1.2 negative
• Gestation
• Renal cystadenocarcinomas
• Urethral sphincter mechanism incompetence (causing urinary incontinence)
• Silica urolithiasis
• Vaginal hyperplasia
• Testicular neoplasia
• Variation in the interoestrus interval
• Spontaneous thymic haemorrhage
• Nasal dermoid sinus cyst