SUCCESSFUL MANAGEMENT OF ACQUIRED MEGAESOPHAGUS IN A DOG SECONDARY TO HYPOTHYROIDISM AND CANINE DISTEMPER
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Megaesophagus (ME) is an uncommon condition mostly observed in middle aged to older dogs of large to giant breeds.This report describes a case of acquired ME in a Labrador dog secondary to hypothyroidism and canine distemper.The case was presented to o Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex, Mannuthy,, with the major complaint of regurgitation immediately or a few hours after food intake.Clinical examination showed chomping of jaw, temporal twitching and the owner revealed a history of treatment done for canine distemper when animal was three-months old.Haematological and serum biochemical parameters were within normal range except lowered serum T4 (1.24g/dL).Plain and contrast radiography confirmed the presence of severely dilated cervical and thoracic esophagus.Based on the clinico-haemato-biochemical evaluation, the condition was confirmed as acquired ME, secondary to hypothyroidism and canine distemper.The case was successfully managed with oral sildenafil and elevated feeding along with tab (orally), levothyroxine supplementation.Animal showed an uneventful recovery with complete cessation of vomiting.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".