Rhegmatogenous bilateral retinal detachment in a poodle dog

Abstract

A 7-year-old male poodle dog which had suffered loss of vision was destroyed. On macroscopical and histopathological examination both eyes revealed an extensive retinal detachment associated with typical flap type and operculated holes in combination with typical posterior vitreous detachment. In the area of the holes the retina was widely separated from the retinal pigment epithelium and it was thinned showing cystoid degeneration. In man, these changes which are characteristic of certain types of rhegmatogenous retinal detachments may be assumed for the case in the poodle dog.