title: Juvenile nephropathy in a boxer, a rottweiler, a collie and an Irish wolfhound.
abstract: Juvenile nephropathy was diagnosed in a Boxer, a Rottweiler, a Collie and an Irish Wolfhound dog, each presenting with signs compatible with chronic renal failure. The diagnosis in each case was based on the presence of persistence of poorly differentiated tissue (immature glomeruli and/or tubules, persistent mesenchyme) on histopathologic examination. Although juvenile nephropathy has been reported in many breeds of dog, this is the first report of the condition in the Collie and the Irish Wolfhound and only the second description in the Boxer and the Rottweiler. The possibility of an inherited origin of the condition in these four breeds is at present unknown.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Liège, Belgium.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Peeters
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Clercx
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Michiels
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Desmecht
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Snaps
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Henroteaux
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Day
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D001947:Breeding; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology; D004285:Dogs; D005260:Female; D007668:Kidney / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000473:pathology*; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000662:veterinary*; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000235:genetics / Q000662:veterinary; D008297:Male