secondary nutricional Hiperparatiroidismo
As it says it the title is a secretion increased of paratohormona by the secondary gland paratiroides to a metabolic imbalance product of an excessively rich low phosphorus diet and in calcium.
A situation of hipocalcemia takes place relative to phosphorus and has a stimulus of the synthesis and liberation of the PTH in the gland paratiroides to try to increase calcemia. The PTH favors the desmineralización of the bones to increase calcemia and consequently a osteoporosis takes place in fact a synonymy of the disease is the youthful osteoporosis.
Disease that affects mainly feline from the 3 to 12 months of age with an feeding with meat, heart and/or liver.
The symptoms are:
* Cojera accompanied by pain and weakness
* Depressions, anorexy and manifestation of pain when raising the kitten
* Pathological Cojeras continuous and fractures
* Neurological injuries if the vertebrae and deformities in bones are affected.
Once made the debera diagnosis to be made a diagnosis differential with the raquitismo, since he is very similar (but much less frequent).
The clinical signs of this dietetic upheaval quickly send exactly when correcting the diet, the prognosis is good excepting those cases in that they can be left sequels of neurological or mechanical type like constipation and distocia. To also see decalcification in felines.
Author: MV Adelaida A. Goldman
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