Hi, Kim,
YES, this is exactly the problem. I took in my bitch for the first time
in the U.S. to a show eye clinic; she had already been cleared by an
opthamologist at eight weeks in the UK. (She may have been seen again in
the UK; not sure). At this point she was about two plus years old. The
opthamologist at the clinic told us that she had a cataract; we were
horrified. However, I was mightily skeptical, so spent hours driving to
a private opthamologist and paid......hmmmmmmmmm...$75.00 I think for a
second opinion. He (not the sort of guy with a delightful bedside
manner) locked me out of the room ONLY because it was a second opinion
and he wanted nothing to influence it even my body language. <G> (He
teaches at Tufts and my vet says he is a stich). I do know that two
sorts of drops were put in, multiple waiting times, and several
different sets of headgear and other sorts of lens were used. I was
allowed into the room after he was done (the process took about two
hours with the waiting involved) and his first words were; "well, one
thing its NOT and that is a cataract; WRONG layer for that". He then
went on to ask if she had been ill. I said that we had just gotten over
an epidemic of HGE and that she had been the one most ill four days in
the ICU. He said that this was most likely an artifact of that disease
process.
OK. He then gave her a CERF.
Next year I went to the eye clinic again at a show....................
the opthamologist there said about her "she has a retinal
fold".................
DEEEEEP sigh. Back again to reconfirm it wasn't that. So, I'm not
wasting money at clinics for this particular girl!
Another of my bitches had a lipid (fatty) deposit in her eye and we went
through exactly the same process. It gets expensive to keep doing this
twice each year. So, my feeling on my own group is that if artifact (or
a real problem) is discovered, they come out of the clinic
"pre-screening" yearly process and get followed by a private doctor on
his schedule which isn't necessarily yearly.
I hope that this answers the question?
Best,
Suze
Kim Kaslow wrote:
> In other words, after the intial
>
>>misdiagnosis I would go to a long and elaborate diagnostic procedure and
>>have the bitch CERFED; only to find that on the next year's diagnosis by
>>a different opthamologist that I had to do this all over again. While
>>the $25.00 for the clearance at a clinic isn't a problem, it is very
>>problematic to keep RE-clearing the same bitch each year with her benign
>>
>
> Hi Suze,
>
> What type of elaborate diagnostic procedure did you have to go thru to have
> your dog qualify for a CERF and what type of misdiagnosis did you deal with
> originally? I thought that if a dog had retinal dysplasia, it was present
> from a young age, not something that would come and go?
>
> Kind regards and thanks :),
> Kim
>
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