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Thermographic imaging of police working dogs with bilateral naturally occurring hip osteoarthritis
- Source :
- Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos), Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC)-FCT-Sociedade da Informação, instacron:RCAAP, Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica, Vol 62, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Background Digital thermal imaging is a physiologic, non-invasive, contactless, and non-radiating diagnostic tool that can assess a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions, including hip osteoarthritis (HOA). Fifty police working dogs were evaluated to compare the dorsoventral (DV) and lateral (LT) thermographic images in dogs with naturally occurring bilateral HOA. A DV, and left and right lateral LT images were obtained for each animal in six different moments. They were positioned standing in a symmetrical upright position for the DV view. Each image included the area from the last lumbar to the first coccygeal vertebrae. Each LT view was set with the greater trochanter in the centre of the image. Images were taken with a thermographic camera from a distance of 60 cm. Mean and maximal temperatures were recorded, analyzed with ANOVA, dependent samples t-test, and Spearman correlation, with P Results Nine hundred images were considered, collected from 30 males and 20 females, with a mean age of 6.5 ± 2.2 years and bodyweight of 26.7 ± 5.3 kg. The overall value recorded on the DV view was 25.3º ± 9.1 and 28.4º ± 2.8 on the lateral view. These were significantly different (P Conclusions This is the first study that describes digital thermography's diagnostic use to evaluate working dogs with naturally occurring HOA, comparing two different views. Future studies should address each one's value in the diagnosis and response to treatment of this disease.
- Subjects :
- Male
Coccygeal Vertebra
Greater trochanter
040301 veterinary sciences
Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis, Hip
0403 veterinary science
03 medical and health sciences
Lumbar
Dogs
Digital thermography
Thermographic imaging
Working Dogs
Hip osteoarthritis
Dog
Medicine
Animals
Dog Diseases
Low correlation
030304 developmental biology
0303 health sciences
lcsh:Veterinary medicine
Hip
General Veterinary
business.industry
Research
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Thermography
lcsh:SF600-1100
Female
business
Nuclear medicine
Subjects
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- ISSN :
- 17510147
- Volume :
- 62
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Acta veterinaria Scandinavica
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....54cceb9b641e483359471202428fb537