Signalment and Diseases

Question 1

An immune mediated inflammation of the brain

(a meningoencephalitis of unknown aetiology)

What type is the most common in pugs?

Answer 1

• In pugs is most commonly necrotising meningoencephalitis
• In necrotizing meningoencephalitis, lesions are very inflammatory with meningitis.
• Typically, there are a minimal amount of inflammatory lesions located in the cerebellum, brainstem and spinal cord.
• Necrotizing meningoencephalitis (NME) is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system, typically with both a rapid onset and progression leading to death in dogs within a few months