Category Archives: Cases

What do we do with this?

My good friend Dominic Alexander e-mailed me this picture, not because he wanted a diagnosis, but rather to know what I would suggest as a treatment plan. Continue reading

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Blindsight?

This five year old labrador has dilated pupils without much of a pupillary light reflex and a retina that looks just like the picture in the textbook for generalised progressive retinal atrophy with an overly reflective tapetum and narrow vessels. Continue reading

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Is this a melanoma?

This cat has been referred with a possible iris melanoma. Continue reading

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The ultimate botox!

This poor labrador was afflicted with botulism and spent a week on a ventilator before recovering well as seen here. Continue reading

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A big bad black hole!

I was asked to look at this black labrador as he was extremely hypertensive with a suspected phaeochromocytoma. I thought I might see the same sort of retinal changes as we detect in a cat, though to my mind they occur much less frequently in hypertensive dogs. But what should I see but this?! What do you reckon it is and what would you do next? Continue reading

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Bad eye in a beardy!

This bearded dragon has an unusual right eye compared with his left but doesn’t seem to be affected by it. What might be happening here? Continue reading

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An alien in the eye?!

This appaloosa horse was referred to me with a blind but pain-free eye which seems to be enlarged. Continue reading

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Eye of the rising sun!

Looking at this eye reminded me of the Animals’ glorious hit from 1964 ‘House of the rising sun’ (listen and watch at Continue reading

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Why blind?

A colleague referred a blind hyperthyroid cat to me saying she expected to see complete retinal detachment, retinal haemorrhages and vessel changes but didn’t – why is it blind? Continue reading

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Is this glaucoma?

This eye belongs to a English Springer Spaniel which has some visual disturbance but isn’t blind. But it does have a hazy cornea and the owner, having read up on the internet is worried her dog has glaucoma. Is this the case and if not what could the diagnosis be?  Continue reading

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