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Unilateral renal agenesis associated with additional congenital abnormalities of the urinary tract in a Pekingese bitch
Author(s) -
Agut A.,
Palacio M. J. Fernandez,
Laredo F. G.,
Murciano J.,
Bayon A.,
Soler M.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of small animal practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1748-5827
pISSN - 0022-4510
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-5827.2002.tb00007.x
Subject(s) - medicine , hydroureter , ectopic ureter , renal agenesis , urinary system , agenesis , hydronephrosis , hypoplasia , ureter , urology , ectopic kidney , urinary bladder , kidney , urinary incontinence , anatomy
An eight‐month‐old Pekingese bitch with urinary incontinence was found to have three congenital anomalies of the urinary tract: left renal agenesis, bilateral ectopic ureters with a left cranial blind‐ending ureter, and urinary bladder hypoplasia. The diagnoses were made by retrograde vaginourethrography, excretory urography, ultrasonography and duplex Doppler ultrasonography. Although urological anomalies associated with renal agenesis have been frequently observed, a cranial blind‐end ectopic ureter has not, to the authors’knowledge, been described in the bitch. The dog was managed medically with a restricted protein diet because of a compromised unilateral kidney with hydronephrosis and hydroureter.