MedInform

Journal of Medical and Dental Practice

www.medinform.bgISSN 2367-6795

Issue One 2016

2016, Vol. 3, issue 1, (June)

Publisher: Medinform LTD
ISSN: 2367-6795
Pages: 370-421
Date of close: 2016/06/23

Case Reports

Two types of mixed gonad dysgenesis (true hermaphroditism) of the dog – a clinical case

Abstract:

Mixed gonad dysgenesis or true hermaphroditism is the heaviest sexual chromosome syndrome in which one individual animal has simultaneously two fully functional types of reproductive tissue, which is presented with strong disorders in a dog’s sexual development. With the expansion of castration of homeless and domestic dogs, as well as with the advancement in diagnostic imaging methods various genital abnormalities and dysgeneses in dogs of different breed affiliation can be detected. Hormonal imbalance, abnormal and delayed development, and ambiguous genital organs of a dog can be established. Sometimes they appear with nonspecific symptoms which are hard to differentiate from other disorders of the urinary and reproductive organs. The two types of true hermaphroditism as first manifest with male phenotype, second was develop with female phenotype were detected. The different types of sexually chromosome syndrome in the dog should be known and researched in dog`s veterinary practice because such animals should be found and excluded from breeding and earlier reveal gives possible to treated.

Authors:

Georgi Georgiev; Department of Anatomy, Histology and Physiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Forestry – Sofia, Bulgaria;

Corresponding Author:

Georgi Georgiev; Department of Anatomy, Histology and Physiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Forestry – Sofia, Bulgaria; Sofia Bulgaria 1, Tsarigradsko shosse Blvd. 73; +359 898 743 055; Email this author