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- Loss of balance or falling
- Circling or weaving
- Loss of bladder or bowel control
- Paresis (weakness of voluntary movements)
- Loss of vision
- Head tilt
- Ataxia (inability to control movements)
- Change in behavior (for example, a calm dog becomes aggressive)
- Inability to recognize owner
- Seizure
- Sudden collapse
- Ischemic
- There is lack of blood flow to the brain
- It is the most common type of stroke to affect dogs
- A narrowing of the artery is called thrombosis
- A clogging of the artery by material from another location is called embolism
- Hemorrhagic
- There is a presence of too much blood
- Occurs with a broken blood vessel
- Blood between the brain and skull is a subdural hemorrhage
- Blood leaking within the brain in an intraparenchymal hemorrhage
- Thyroid gland abnormalities
- Infection in the central nervous system
- Cushing’s disease (hyperadrenocorticism)
- High blood pressure (hypertension)
- Protein-losing nephropathy
- Lungworm
- Head trauma
- Heart attack
- Hyperlipidemia (high concentration of fats or lipids in blood)
- Intravascular cancers
- Abnormal development of blood vessels
- Inflammation in blood vessels or arteries
- Ingestion of rodent poisoning
- Increased blood viscosity (thickening of blood)
- Kidney, liver, or heart disease
- Clogging of an artery (such as by fat, tumor, or parasites)
- Congenital clotting disease
- How long have you noticed a change in your dog’s behavior?
- Did the symptoms come on in an acute fashion, or gradually become more noticeable or intense with time?
- Has your pet been ill recently?
- Is your dog on any medication?
- Is is possible that your dog could have been exposed to rodent poison or any other toxin?
- Also under anesthetic, a spinal tap could be done to rule out diseases that present similarly to a stroke
- Retinal exams to check for instances like optic disc swelling, consistent with intracranial pressure
- Endocrine testing to look for illnesses like diabetes
- Thyroid hormone analysis
- Complete blood count and serum chemistry panel
- Blood pressure check
- Urinalysis to check urine creatinine protein ratio
- Clotting studies
- Radiograph (thoracic), CT scan or ultrasound (abdominal) to look for masses, lesions or neoplasia
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