Copper storage disease can occur as a primary disease or secondary to another disease such as diseases that cause build up of bile.
Copper storage disease in dogs prognosis.
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This isn rsquo t normally a problem but dogs with a genetic tendency to excessive copper storage can be affected by a high copper diet.
Copper storage disease is a disease characterized by excessive accumulation of copper in the livers of affected patients.
In dogs with copper storage disease excess copper is not excreted accumulates within the liver cells and causes damage.
It is necessary to remember that if the disease remains untreated then it can prove to be fatal for the dog.
Copper is found in trace elements in the diet.
Iatrogenic copper deficiency associated with long term copper chelation for treatment of copper storage disease in a bedlington terrier.
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Too much copper at one time can overwhelm the liver rsquo s storage capacity and cause liver damage.
This condition may be secondary to a primary disease or the result of genetic based abnormal copper metabolism.
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A gene mutation causes copper storage disease in bedlington terriers.
Copper storage hepatopathy in dogs.
These dogs are bedlington terrier doberman pinscher skye terrier and western highland white terrier and cause hepatitis and cirrhosis in all of them and is also a genetic disease.
Excessive copper ingestion ndash.
Symptoms signs of copper storage disease.
Changes in dog food in the.