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shademtngsp1 User is Offline

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11/17/2009 1:36 PM
A take away point from this whole discussion is the importance of having a proper necropsy done on any dog that dies from an unknown cause. I would recommend contacting the nearest Vet school and most likly plan on transporting to the schoool for the necropsy. The average Vet may not be equipped to do this kind of evaluation. Otherwise you will only guess at what happened or didn't happen. New Question: I need to contact Rick to have my email address changed for this list. Everything I have tried to send to gets sent back. Rick if you are reading this please let me know how I can change where everything is being sent. thanks! Brenda ----- Original Message ----- From: NanROCCo@aol.com To: gsp-l@web.whc.net Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:46:52 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [gsp-l] sudden death in gsp's - notes found In a message dated 11/17/2009 2:09:08 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, nuthatch@aztec-net.com writes: the type seen in gsps is called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and, as compared to the frequency we see the associated types of cardiomyopathy in Dobermans and Boxers, is relatively rare - note that doesn't mean it isn't important just that it isn't all that common - hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a result of the thickening of the ventricle walls of heart muscle - the end result is the same as it is for the Boxer but the cause is entirely different We know that we have that, Heather, as it is evident on post, and thus, we know it to be rare. The only reason Leita suggests that we may want to look at the "Boxer" type is that in the identified dogs that have died and been posted, there has been noting detectable on post, so not hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The only way the Boxer people can eliminate dogs with arrhythmias from their programs is to holter check them. Some do it every six months or so. The problem, as mentioned on the Dobe site I posted is that their type of cardiomyopathy worsens with age, and the dogs may have already been frequently bred before they die, and what they died of is discovered on post. Whatever this is, it is something else...I wonder what...Nance

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