Prevalencia de patologías corneales más frecuentes en perros que asisten a la consulta oftalmológica en el Consultorio Veterinario Animals.INC de Guayaquil.

Abstract

Corneal pathologies are conditions that affect the outermost layer of the eye whose function is to protect and help focus the light. There are many causes that can give rise to these pathologies the most common are traumas, but they can also be caused by systemic diseases. The objective of this research was to determine the prevalence of the most frequent corneal pathologies in the Animals.INC veterinary located in the city of Guayaquil, with a sample of 100 cases. The present study is observational since we did not t modified any variable studied, 100 cases of canines consisting of patients of different sex, ages, and race were observed the same ones who had and ophthalmology appointment. 27 patients with corneal pathologies were observed, of which the most frequent was the corneal ulcer with 55 % followed by pigmentary keratitis which was detected in 11 patients of which 1 also presented corneal ulcer and 4 of them Keratoconjunctivitis sicca having a frequency of 40 % only patients with keratoconjunctivitis sicca 12.5 % and corneal erosion was presented in 2 cases with 6.25 %.