Re: [pyrnet] Pyr heart

["Janice Swenson" <janices@austin.rr.com>]

On 21 Dec 2000, at 13:16, darrell goolsbee wrote:
> And SAS is even worse, because you are presented with the possibility
> of drop-dead young dogs. In dogs with the severe form of SAS, I have
> read that there is a 75 percent likelihood of death by age 3!!!

Severe will die, moderate is unknown future, mild usually lives a 
normal life.  In some cases puppies pass the puppy check at 
around 10 weeks and at 1 yr are checked and trivial to mild SAS is 
found and these usually have a very good prognosis.  SAS is a 
developmental disease so the least mild disease when young the 
better.  

The other thing that can happen if a dog has it and you don't know 
it is vegetative endocarditis.  It's essential SAS dogs are given 
antibiotics for cuts, scrapes, scratches, infections, dentals.  
Because if bacteria gets in the bloodstream, vegetative 
endocarditis develops.  Really want to see pictures of what that 
does to a heart.  


Janice, janices@austin.rr.com
Lana & Linsey (newfs), Sonny (pyr)  
http://home.austin.rr.com/janices
Hutto, TX