Clinical Features, MRI Findings, Treatment, and Outcomes in Dogs with Haemorrhagic Myelopathy Secondary to Steroid-Responsive Meningitis-Arteritis: Nine Cases (2017-2024).

This retrospective multicentre study investigated haemorrhagic myelopathy as a rare complication of steroid-responsive meningitis-arteritis (SRMA) in nine dogs. The affected dogs exhibited varied neurological deficits, including cervical hyperesthesia, generalised stiffness, ambulatory tetraparesis, and, in the most severe cases, paraplegia without nociception. MRI findings primarily localised haemorrhagic lesions to the thoracolumbar (T3-L3) region, with intradural-extramedullary haemorrhages being the most common type.

[A proposal of a triage model to control spreading diseases in public health].

Each case of infectious disease can be considered the consequence of an unexpected event which started an infection chain. Every infectious case is therefore a potential source of epidemic, resulting from the total of the epidemic potential of each individual variable involved in the pathology spreading process. This article identifies the main variables involved in the spreading of infectious diseases in communities, and it develops a method which gives importance to each one of them based on the main control measures available to Public Health operators.