ERLIQUIOSE CANINA PRECEDIDA POR DESCOLAMENTO DE RETINA: RELATO DE CASO

• Main Authors: Valéssia Kelly Miranda Maia, José Andreey Almeida Teles, Gil Dutra Furtado
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Environmental Smoke 2020-12-01
• Series: Environmental Smoke
• Subjects: ehrlichia canis; oftalmopathy; tick
• Online Access: http://environmentalsmoke.com.br/index.php/EnvSmoke/article/view/121
• ISSN: 2595-5527; 2595-5527

In the day 21-03-16, was met at the veterinarian's Office "VM RURAL" a dog, breed labrador, age 3 years, weighing 20 kg, with canine ehrlichiosis that culminated in a detached retina causing blindness. The diagnostic method used was the clinical, associated to laboratorial diagnosis through the blood count and hemoparasite search which assisted in the confirmation of this disease. The therapeutic conduct was based on the administration of doxycycline, in 10mg/kg, oral administration, during 30 days, once a day. Posteriorly was associated with imidocarb dipropionate on 5mg/kg subcutaneous dose, followed by another two weeks after administration. With the administration of doxycycline the patient reacted well, but the hematocrit did not reached the reference value, after those two applications of imidocarb the patient continued stable and the hematocrit has reached the desired concentration. The execution of this study intends to draw attention to the gravity of the ophthalmic signs caused by ehrlichiosis, aiming the early diagnosis, for which the patient is treated correctly and in a timely manner, avoiding serious frameworks like what happened with this patient mentioned above. Besides the awareness of the importance of prevention, mainly in places of great concentration of animals with high chance of infestation by ticks, a complicating factor is the absence of vaccine against this disease. The canine ehrlichiosis should always be investigated and subjected to study, for being a cosmopolitan disease, and having a hard vector eradication and for its importance in public health, since in recent decades it has become considered a zoonosis.