Tarun Kumar¹*, Pooja², Shivika Gupta² and Ankit Kumar²

¹Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Clinical Complex, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, Haryana, India
²Department of Veterinary Medicine, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, Haryana, India

*Corresponding Author: Tarun Kumar Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Clinical Complex, Lala Lajpat Rai University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Hisar, Haryana, India.

Received: May 20, 2024; Published: June 25, 2024

Abstract

Asteroid hyalosis is a degenerative clinical condition with unknown aetiology in dogs. An adult six-year-old female dog showed bilateral ocular discharge with multiple white spots. Clinical examination with a focal light source indicated several refractile bodies that were irregularly distributed, more towards the medial canthus of the left eye and more towards the lateral canthus of the right eye, with little or no particle movement with globe movement. B- mode ultrasonography ruled out any space occupying lesion and retinal detachment, although echogenic, spherical, or star-shaped opacities in the vitreous chamber without any posterior acoustic shadowing was observed. With the present case report, we concluded that asteroid hyalosis in dogs can arise in adult dogs and can be bilateral in the absence of any concomitant infection.

 Keywords: Asteroid Hyalosis; Ophthalmic; Ultrasonography

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Citation

Citation: Tarun Kumar., et al. “Asteroid Hyalosis in Dog: A Case Report". Acta Scientific Veterinary Sciences 6.7 (2024): 18-20.

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