Text book of veterinary medicine, Volume 3 (of 5)

Chapter 228: HYDROPHTHALMOS OR BUPHTHALMUS CONGENITUS.

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Comprehensive clinical manual detailing disorders of the nervous, genitourinary, ocular, and integumentary systems in domestic animals. It begins with principles of neural control and general symptomatology, classifying motor, sensory, and psychic disturbances and methods for localizing lesions. The text describes specific conditions such as seizures, paralysis, meningitis, intracranial hemorrhage, tumors, and toxicoses, and outlines diagnostic signs and pathological causes. Later sections address urine analysis and renal disease, urinary tract inflammation and calculi, and diseases of the eye, skin, and constitutional systems, combining pathological description with clinical signs, differential diagnosis, and practical guidance for examination and interpretation.

HYDROPHTHALMOS OR BUPHTHALMUS CONGENITUS.

This has been applied to a congenital enlargement of the eyes from internal distension in children. The cases in lambs and foals quoted in the last article were evidently of this nature. They are charged on intraocular pressure acting on the delicate tissues of the embryo or unborn animal. There is not necessarily cupping of the optic disc so that persistent tension after birth cannot be insisted on.

Cases occurring in older animals, may be forms of secondary glaucoma though classed under hydrophthalmos by Mayer and others.

Treatment when demanded is along the same lines as in glaucoma.