RESEARCH ARTICLE Prevalence of pectus excavatum (PE), pectus carinatum (PC), tracheal hypoplasia, thoracic spine deformities and lateral heart displacement in thoracic radiographs of screw-tailed brachycephalic dogs 1☯ 2☯ 1³ 1³ Renata KomstaID *, Zbigniew Osiński , Piotr Dębiak , Piotr Twardowski , Barbara Lisiak1³ a1111111111 1 Laboratory for Radiology and Ultrasonography Department and Clinic of Animal Surgery, Faculty of a1111111111 Veterinary Medicine, University of Life Science, Lublin, Poland, 2 National Veterinary Research Institute, a1111111111 Puøawy, Poland a1111111111 a1111111111 ☯ These authors contributed equally to this work. ³ These authors also contributed equally to this work. *
[email protected] OPEN ACCESS Abstract Citation: Komsta R, Osiński Z, Dębiak P, Pectus excavatum, thoracic spine deformities, tracheal hypoplasia and lateral heart dis- Twardowski P, Lisiak B (2019) Prevalence of pectus excavatum (PE), pectus carinatum (PC), placement are frequently described in brachycephalic dog breeds. Pectus carinatum is tracheal hypoplasia, thoracic spine deformities and described sporadically, although the authors' observations demonstrate that it may occur in lateral heart displacement in thoracic radiographs certain brachycephalic dog breeds. It was hypothesised that dogs of screw-tailed brachyce- of screw-tailed brachycephalic dogs. PLoS ONE 14 phalic breeds carry a greater risk of these anomalies than normal-tailed brachycephalic (10): e0223642. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0223642 breeds, and that there could a relation between the presence of pectus excavatum or pectus carinatum and thoracic spine deformities, tracheal hypoplasia and lateral heart displace- Editor: Francesco Staffieri, University of Bari, ITALY ment. During retrospective studies, these anomalies were identified in lateral and dorso- ventral radiographs of the thorax in brachycephalic dog breeds.