“Acute onset tetraplegia associated with immune‐mediated thrombocytopenia and suspected secondary intraspinal hemorrhage in a dog”

Abstract

Neurologic manifestations of immune‐mediated thrombocytopenia are uncommon, and limited reports exist in human and veterinary medicine. This report documents acute onset of tetraplegia in a dog with immune‐mediated thrombocytopenia and suspected secondary intraspinal hemorrhage with subsequent recovery of neurologic function following treatment.

Splenectomy in the management of primary immune‐mediated hemolytic anemia and primary immune‐mediated thrombocytopenia in dogs

“…Normal intracranial magnetic resonance imaging had been obtained before splenectomy because of the onset of acute onset vestibular signs (diagnosis: idiopathic vestibular syndrome). Neurological manifestations of ITP are uncommon in dogs and signs of intracranial hemorrhage would typically be expected alongside other clinical evidence of bleeding (ie, petechiae and ecchymoses), 29 , 30 , 31 so the seizures were considered unrelated to relapse of ITP or the splenectomy procedure performed 112 days prior.…”