Basset Hound Club of AmericaThe following Basset Hound Health links are provided for information purposes only and are not meant to replace advice and care from your Veterinarian. The Basset Hound Club of America, Inc. cannot give advice or answer questions about specific health issues or concerns. If you think your Basset Hound may have a health condition or might be sick , please contact your Veterinarian as soon as possible.
VetCentric.com--Veterinary
Medical Encyclopedia
http://www.vetcentric.com/reference/encyc.cfm
VetInfo--A
Veterinary Information Site (Dogs)
http://www.vetinfo4dogs.com/dogindex.html
Veterinary
Ophthalmology Information Centre (Michael Zigler, DVM)
http://www.eyevet.org/infocentre.html
Canine
Eye Registration Foundation (CERF)
http://www.vet.purdue.edu/~yshen/cerf.html
American
College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists (ACVO)
http://www.acvo.com/
Glaucoma
in Veterinary Patients (Michael Zigler, DVM)
http://www.eyevet.ca/glaucoma.html
Getting
the Drop on Glaucoma: The Medical and Surgical
Management of Glaucoma,
Robert J. Munger, DVM, DACVO
http://www.vin.com/mainpub/glaucoma/Glaucoma_HO.htm
http://www.upei.ca/~cidd/Diseases/ocular%20disorders/glaucoma.htm
Glaucoma
and Cataracts: Can We Eliminate Them?
(AKC CHF White Paper, Kirk N. Gelatt,
VMD, March, 2000)
http://www.geocities.com/welshealth/Articles/paper002.htm
Glaucoma
(Animal Eye Specialists, El Cerrito, CA)
http://home.flash.net/~anmleyz/glaucoma.htm
Glaucoma in the Flat Coated Retriever (with
discussion of heritability of goniodysgenesis)
http://www.fcrsainc.org/glaucoma.html
Understanding
Glaucoma in the Samoyed (and other breeds) (Kerry Meydam)
http://www.blinddogs.com/articles/glaucoma.htm
Basset
Hounds Shouldn't Bleed (Carolyn Young)
http://www.basset.net/bleed.html
Canine von Willebrand’s Disease (VetCentric)
http://www.vetcentric.com/reference/encycEntry.cfm?ENTRY=78&COLLECTION=EncycIllness&MODE=full
Interpretation
of von Willebrand's Factor Antigen Testing
(Cornell
http://web.vet.cornell.edu/public/coaglab/clinical_topics/vWD/lab_diag.htm
DNA
Studies in Doberman von Willebrand's Disease (George J. Brewer/VetGen)
http://www.vetgen.com/vwdrpt.html
Basset
Hounds Shouldn't Bleed (Carolyn Young)
http://www.basset.net/bleed.html
Hereditary
Basset Thrombopathy...25 Years Later (James L. Catalfamo, PhD and
http://www.basset.net/thrombo.html
Series
on Canine Hip Dysplasia (John C. Cargill, MA, MBA, MS and Susan
Thorpe-Vargas, MS)
http://siriusdog.com/chd1.htm
Canine
Hip and Elbow Dysplasia Resources (Working Dogs)
http://www.workingdogs.com/doc0090.htm
OFA
PennHip--The
University of Pennsylvania Hip Improvement Program
http://www.vet.upenn.edu/research/centers/pennhip//
Canine
Intervertebral Disk Disease (Patricia J. Luttgen, DVM, MS, prepared
for
the Dachshund Club of America, Inc.)
http://www.dachshund-dca.org/diskbook.html
Intervertebral
Disk Disease, Canine (Vetcentric.com)
http://www.vetcentric.com/reference/encycEntry.cfm?ENTRY=103&COLLECTION=EncycIllness&MODE=full
Intervertebral
Disk Disease (Long Beach Animal Hospital)
http://lbah.com/Canine/ivd.htm
Canine
Hip and Elbow Dysplasia Resources (Working Dogs)
http://www.workingdogs.com/doc0090.htm
Elbow
Dysplasia, Part 1 (Dr. Henry DeBoer Jr.)
http://www.workingdogs.com/deboer_elbow1.htm
Elbow
Dysplasia, Part 2 (Dr. Henry DeBoer Jr.)
http://www.workingdogs.com/deboer_elbow2.htm
Elbow
Dysplasia (Daniel D. Lewis, DVM)
http://www.vetmed.ufl.edu/sacs/Lewis/Lewis-Elbows/newpage1.htm
Panosteitis,
Eosinophilic Panosteitis (VetCentric.com)
http://www.vetcentric.com/reference/encycEntry.cfm?ENTRY=7&COLLECTION=EncycIllness&MODE=full
Panosteitis (Dr.
Nicholas Trout, PetPlace.com)
http://www.petplace.com/articles/artShow.asp?artID=223
Panosteitis
(Daniel A. Degner, DVM)
http://www.vetsurgerycentral.com/panosteitis.htm
GASTRIC DILATATION-VOLVULUS (BLOAT)
Gastric
Dilatation Volvulus (Bloat) (Canine Inherited Disorders Database)
http://www.upei.ca/~cidd/Diseases/GI%20disorders/gastric%20dilatation-volvulus.htm
Gastric
Dilatation-Volvulus (Dr. Debra Primovic, PetPlace.com)
http://www.petplace.com/articles/artShow.asp?artID=173
Purdue
University's Epidemiology Page on Canine Gastric Dilatation-Volvulus
Dog
Owner's Guide: Bloat
http://www.canismajor.com/dog/bloat.html
Bloat in Dogs (contains a long list of
links)
http://www.globalspan.net/bloat.htm
Canine
Hemorrhagic Gastroenteritis (VetCentric)
http://www.vetcentric.com/reference/encycEntry.cfm?ENTRY=95&COLLECTION=EncycIllness&MODE=full
Hemorrhagic
Gastroenteritis (HGE) (Dr. Barl Spielman)
http://www.petplace.com/Articles/artPrinterFriendly.asp?all=1&artID=3872&conID=22107
Veterinary
Q & A: HGE
Also
know as Hemorrhagic Gastroenteritis (About.com)
http://vetmedicine.about.com/library/weekly/aa080301a.htm
Canine
Allergies (About.com)
http://allergies.about.com/library/weekly/aa072699.htm
Atopy (Dr. Mark Thompson,
PetPlace.com)
http://petplace.netscape.com/Netscape/nsArtShow.asp?artID=111
Atopy
(Environmental Allergies Affecting the Skin) (Pamela Davol)
http://www.labbies.com/atopy.htm
Flea
Allergy Dermatitis (Dr. Rosanna Marsalla, PetPlace.com)
http://petplace.netscape.com/Netscape/nsArtShow.asp?artID=155
http://petplace.netscape.com/Netscape/nsArtShow.asp?artID=156
Allergic
and Non-Allergic Food Reactions Causing Skin Diseases (Pamela Davol)
http://www.labbies.com/foodreactions.htm
Allergic
Drug Reactions Affecting the Skin (Pamela Davol)
http://www.labbies.com/drugallergies.htm
http://petplace.netscape.com/Netscape/nsArtShow.asp?artID=2560
TICK-BORNE DISEASES
Just What Are "Tick Titers," Anyway? An Overview of Selected Tick-Borne Diseases (Celeste A. Clements, DVM) http://www.vetcentric.com/magazine/magazineArticle.cfm?ARTICLEID=875
Ticks: Anatomy, Reproduction, & Disease Transmission in Dogs (PetEducation.com) http://www.peteducation.com:80/article.cfm?cls=2&cat=1588&articleid=603
Ehrlichiosis
(VetCentric)
http://www.vetcentric.com/reference/encycEntry.cfm?ENTRY=6&COLLECTION=EncycIllness&MODE=full
Ehrlichiosis
in Dogs (Holly Frisby, DVM, MS)
http://www.peteducation.com:80/article.cfm?cls=2&cat=1556&articleid=430
Canine
Monocytic Ehrlichiosis (T.Waner and S. Harrus)
http://www.ivis.org/advances/Infect_Dis_Carmichael/waner/chapter_frm.asp
Lyme
Disease (VetCentric)
http://www.vetcentric.com/reference/encycEntry.cfm?ENTRY=56&COLLECTION=EncycIllness
Lyme
Disease (Borreliosis) in Dogs (PetEducation.com)
http://www.peteducation.com:80/article.cfm?cls=2&cat=1556&articleid=458
Lyme
Borreliosis in Dogs (R.K. Straubinger)
http://www.ivis.org/advances/Infect_Dis_Carmichael/straubinger/chapter_frm.asp
Tick-borne
Ehrilichiae and Rickettsiae of Dogs (A.S. Varela)
http://www.ivis.org/advances/parasit_Bowman/varela/chapter_frm.asp?LA=1
Rocky
Mountain Spotted Fever in Dogs (Holly Frisby, DVM, MS)
http://www.peteducation.com:80/article.cfm?cls=2&cat=1556&articleid=472
An
Overview of Canine Babesiosis (UGA)
http://www.vet.uga.edu/vpp/clerk/Cleveland/
The
Dog Parasite: Hepatozoan canis (Holly Frisby, DVM, MS)
http://www.peteducation.com:80/article.cfm?cls=2&cat=1621&articleid=744
Hemobartonellosis
in Dogs (Holly Frisby, DVM, MS)
http://www.peteducation.com:80/article.cfm?cls=2&cat=1556&articleid=293