Silica urolithiasis in dogs around in Kagoshima

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  • Tasaki Yumi
    Laboratory of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agricalture, Kagoshima University
  • Miura Naoki
    Laboratory of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agricalture, Kagoshima University
  • Momoi Yasuyuki
    Laboratory of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agricalture, Kagoshima University

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  • 鹿児島県で多発するイヌのシリカ尿石についての緊急調査
  • カゴシマケン デ タハツ スル イヌ ノ シリカ ニョウセキ ニ ツイテ ノ キンキュウ チョウサ

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Abstract

Silica calculus is unusual in urolithiasis in dogs. We conducted epidemiological study on silica calculus in dogs around Kagoshima area. Information questionnaires from veterinarians and clients indicated that silica urolithiasis was not related to food and dog's habit (eating clod), but was associated with drinking tap water. Silica concentration of tap water in Kagoshima area was obviously higher than that in another area in Japan. A brand of mineral water made in Kagoshima area also had high silica level. Though intake of high level silica in water did not affect urine silica concentration experimentally, our results indicated that it is beneficial to use low silica level water to prevent silica urolithiasis in dogs.

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