MASTIFF
Cardiovascular conditions
Pulmonic stenosis
Mitral dysplasia
- Congenital
- Genetic basis suspected
Gastrointestinal conditions
Gastric dilatation-volvulus
- Possible breed predisposition
Musculoskeletal conditions
Hip dysplasia
- This breed has the eighteenth worst breed mean score in the BVA – KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme as of October 2001
Cranial cruciate ligament rupture
- Young animals may be predisposed in this breed
Ocular conditions
Entropion (may be associated with macropalpebral fissure)
- Breed predisposition; polygenic inheritance likely
Ectropion (may be associated with macropalpebral fissure)
- Breed predisposition; polygenic inheritance likely
Macropalpebral fissure resulting in combined entropion-ectropion (‘diamond eye’)
- Breed predisposition; genetic basis incompletely understood
Eversion of the cartilage of the nictitating membrane
- Breed predisposition; inheritance suspected
Prolapse of the gland of the nictitating membrane (‘cherry eye’)
- Breed predisposition
Corneal dystrophy
- Breed predisposition; not known if inherited
Persistent pupillary membranes and microphthalmia
• Recessive inheritance has been suggested
Cataract
- Inheritance suspected
Renal and urinary conditions
Cystine urolithiasis
- Higher incidence reported in this breed in some American surveys
Reproductive conditions
Vaginal hyperplasia
- Breed predisposition
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