Renal Dysplasia - Shih Tzu, Lhasa Apso, Wheeten Terrier VetGen Announces a Linked Marker Test to Help Reduce the Incidence of Renal Dysplasia in Shih Tzu, Lhasa Apso, and Soft Coated Wheaten Terriers.
Renal Dysplasia is the failure of normal development of the kidney.
Gradually increasing symptoms include excessive thirst and volume of urine, weight loss, lack of vigor, intermittent loss of appetite and eventual kidney failure often beginning at less than one year of age. The veterinary literature shows that the hereditary disease occurs in thirty-one breeds. The simplest way to understand the value of this test is to consider the following. Perhaps we can use an example that is more intuitively obvious. But the risk of producing JRD is four times higher when a pink puppy is born than if a green puppy is born.