Alabama rot foot. Alabama rot also known as crgv cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy is a very rare potentially life threatening disease that blocks and damages the blood vessels in a dogs skin and kidneys. Alabama rot otherwise known as cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy crgv is a disease affecting dogs by causing damage to the skin and kidneys blood vessels. If its not spotted early enough it could lead to potentially fatal kidney failure with most cases leading to death within a week as the diagnosis often comes too late.
Alabama rot cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy is an increasingly common disease in dogs which causes damage to the blood vessels of the skin and kidneys. Clinically alabama rot is known as idiopathic cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy or crgv for short. The initial symptoms are skin lesions on the legs chest and abdomen followed by renal involvement.
This can cause small blood clots to form resulting in blockages that can lead to damage of the affected tissue. In november 2012 the first cases were suspected in the uk. Dogs with the disease can suffer from skin ulcers acute kidney failure and even death.
A brief history of the disease. The cause of alabama rot or dogs black death is unknown and it affects all breeds. As the name implies alabama rot was first seen in alabama usa in the 1980s.