Frecuencia de patologías oftalmológicas presentadas en caninos y felinos atendidas en dos clínicas veterinarias sector norte de Guayaquil.

Abstract

Ocular pathologies are frequent in cats and dogs, it is of the utmost importance to identify the pathology that the pet presents and perform ophthalmological examinations to issue an adequate treatment considering the patient's clinical history. The objective of this work was to determine the frequency of ophthalmological pathologies presented in canine and feline patients treated at two veterinary clinics in the northern sector of Guayaquil. The type of study carried out in this investigation was exploratory with a quantitative approach, descriptive and correlational in scope, non-experimental, with a sample of 113 cases, in which the variables of race, sex and age were determined. In which it was shown in the canines that the mestizo breed was the most frequent with 24 %, and the Shih tzu breed with the most predisposition with a total of 12.5%, as well as the study by Guzmán 2018, indicated that the most predisposing breed was, the Puddle with 12.60 % and the Shih tzu with 13.44 %. In felines, the Common European Shorthair was the most frequent breed with ophthalmological pathologies with a total of 70 %, in addition it was found that the age greater than 12 to 108 months was more frequent with 64 % in CV1 and 67 % in CV1. CV2 in felines and canines with a value of 55 % in CV1 and 67 % in CV2. There was a higher frequency in males of the canine species with a percentage of 48 in CV1 and in CV2 with 49 %, in females with a value of 33% in CV1 and in CV2 with 40 %.