Description

Alabama rot is the colloquial name for cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy (CRGV). CRGV is a canine disease, first recognised in the UK in 2012, but similar to the disease reported in racing greyhounds, in the USA in the 1980s. It generally manifests as ulcerative skin lesions, but a proportion of dogs develop acute kidney injury (AKI), which appears to be relatively refractory to treatment.