Abstract

Endocrine diseases make up a significant percentage of the chronic diseases in small animal patients. Dogs and cats with endocrinopathies are at risk of developing many serious ocular signs that may jeopard ize their quality of life. Most of the endocrinopathies including diabetes mellitus, Cushing’s disease, growth hormone imbalance, hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism etc. have ocular manifestations. A better understanding of such ocular manifestations will help in the early diagnosis of the disease condition as well as to undertake the prompt measures for prevention of their occurrence, slowing down the progress or treatment.

Keywords : Endocrinopathies, ocular manifestations, diabetes mellitus, hypothyroidism, hypocalcaemia.