Arterial Attenuation
Denotatively, to attenuate means to to weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity; to make thin; to make slender or fine.
When your ophthalmologist examines your dog’s eye and you hear the term “arterial attenuation”, your ophthalmologist is referring to the weakening or lessening of the blood vessel infrastructure in the eye.
In SARDs/IMR dogs, in addition to the auto-antibodies that destroy retinal cells, the dog’s immune system mistakes the retinal cells as cancer and “attacks” the cancer in another way — by cutting off the blood supply to the retina.
Because living cells in the body require blood supply, reducing the blood flow, by decreasing the blood vessel infrastructure to the retina, is the body’s way to fight the retinal cells that the body mistakes as cancer.
What we really wanted to write about tonight, however, was our new doggy treadmill that arrived today. However, after putting it together and turning it on, we received an error message on the console, and started to smell an electrical burn.
