An Unusual Case of Swimmer Puppy Syndrome in Labrador Puppy
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Swimmers puppy syndrome is an uncommon developmental deformity seen in neonatal puppies and kittens, in which animal's limbs, most commonly hind limbs, are splayed laterally, and because of that animals are unable to walk or stand. This condition may also affect the thoracic limb. It is also called flat pup syndrome, twisted legs, turtle pup, and splay leg. This condition is commonly seen in brachycephalic breeds having short legs and a broad thoracic cavity. When trying to walk, affected animals invariably stay in sternal recumbency and show swimmers-like movements and this movement is more commonly seen on the smooth surface. The exact cause of this condition is unknown but many predisposing factors are responsible, viz., slippery floor, delayed neuromuscular development, abnormal myelinization, genetic factor, weight gain exceeding skeletal muscle development, etc. This condition is commonly seen at the 1st to 7th week of age. Currently, there is no specific and set protocol for the treatment of Swimmer Puppy Syndrome. To our knowledge, the few case studies described therapies based on the implementation of temporary immobilizations utilizing eight-girdle or cuff bandages and intensive physical therapy. (Karcher et al., 2018).
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".