When a point bleeds, it is important to let it bleed. Once the congestion is corrected, the bleeding stops. Our cases ranged from 4 months to 17 years of age. We have treated 2 Pekinese dogs for hip dysplasia. The size of the dog does not have a bearing on the success of the gold bead implant.
Age does have the greatest effect on the success of gold bead implant.
We break the age group into 3 classes. The number one cause for our failures in hip dysplasia is secondary degenerative myelopathy. Degenerative myelopathy is considered by most experts to be a totally separate condition, but I have never seen it show up as a condition by itself. There has always been another concurrent problem. In my opinion, degenerative myelopathy begins as a localised alkalosis in the hip joint.