Síndrome uveodermatológica em Spitz alemão: relato de caso

Abstract

The aim of this work is to describe the activities carried out during the Mandatory Supervised Internship (ESO), the final part of the curriculum of the Bachelor's degree in Veterinary Medicine at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco - UFRPE. The ESO was coordinated by Professor Dr. Cláudio Coutinho Bartolomeu and carried out in two different locations in the area of small animal medical and surgical clinics. Initially, it was conducted at the mobile castramobile unit of the municipality of Olinda, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, between October 3, 2023, and February 8, 2024, under the supervision of Dr. Alecsandra de Abreu França, totaling 220 hours. Subsequently, the internship was carried out at the private veterinary clinic Day Clinic Pet, with Dr. Karina Melo, located in the Casa Forte neighborhood, in Recife, between December 11, 2023, and February 16, 2024, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, totaling 200 hours. Together, they amounted to the 420 hours required by the discipline. During the internship, activities such as accompanying medical and dermatological consultations, collecting biological samples, medical history, physical examination, rapid testing, requesting exams, prescribing and administering medications, monitoring the evolution of clinical cases, administering vaccines and immunobiologicals, as well as performing surgical procedures of orchiectomy and hysterectomy in small animals, and making diagnoses and prognoses were carried out. Also presented in this work is the report of a clinical case followed in the private clinic of a male German Spitz, weighing 3.1 kg, 3 years and 8 months old, presenting uveitis and microphthalmia in the left eye, depigmentation in the muzzle (nose and mouth) and eyelids, and photophobia. Based on clinical findings and pre-performed exams indicating the beginning of cataract, vitreous degeneration, and vitritis, the uveodermatologic syndrome, not yet reported in German Spitz dogs, was diagnosed.