Editing Basset Hound (section)

===Other health issues===
[[File:Cherry eye, a common eye condition for basset hounds .jpg|thumb|A common eye condition Basset Hounds develop called [[cherry eye]]]]
Basset Hounds are prone to yeast infections.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vcahospitals.com/know-your-pet/yeast-dermatitis-in-dogs|title=Yeast Dermatitis in Dogs|website=vca_corporate |language=en|access-date=2018-02-01}}</ref>

Leading causes of death in a 2004 UK Kennel Club survey were cancer (31%), old age (13%), [[gastric dilatation volvulus]] (11%), and cardiac (8%).<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Adams | first1=V. J. | last2=Evans | first2=K. M. | last3=Sampson | first3=J. | last4=Wood | first4=J. L. N. | title=Methods and mortality results of a health survey of purebred dogs in the UK | journal=Journal of Small Animal Practice | volume=51 | issue=10 | date=2010-10-01 | doi=10.1111/j.1748-5827.2010.00974.x | pages=512–524| pmid=21029096 }}</ref>

Information from veterinary data found the prevalence of [[glaucoma]] to be 5.44%, second highest in the study.<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Gelatt | first1=Kirk N. | last2=MacKay | first2=Edward O. | title=Prevalence of the breed-related glaucomas in pure-bred dogs in North America | journal=Veterinary Ophthalmology | publisher=Wiley | volume=7 | issue=2 | date=2004-02-18 | issn=1463-5216 | doi=10.1111/j.1463-5224.2004.04006.x | pages=97–111}}</ref>

The Basset Hound is predisposed to [[gastric dilatation volvulus]].<ref>{{cite journal | last=Bell | first=Jerold S. | title=Inherited and Predisposing Factors in the Development of Gastric Dilatation Volvulus in Dogs | journal=Topics in Companion Animal Medicine | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=29 | issue=3 | year=2014 | issn=1938-9736 | doi=10.1053/j.tcam.2014.09.002 | pages=60–63}}</ref> One study found the [[odds ratio]] to be 5.9.<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Glickman | first1=Lawrence T. | last2=Glickman | first2=Nita W. | last3=Pérez | first3=Cynthia M. | last4=Schellenberg | first4=Diana B. | last5=Lantz | first5=Gary C. | title=Analysis of risk factors for gastric dilatation and dilatation-volvulus in dogs | journal=Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association | publisher=American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) | volume=204 | issue=9 | date=1994-05-01 | issn=0003-1488 | doi=10.2460/javma.1994.204.09.1465 | pages=1465–1471| pmid=8050972 }}</ref>

[[thrombasthenia|Basset Hound hereditary thrombopathy]] is an autosomally inherited platelet disorder characterised by a thrombasthenia defect in primary aggregation abnormality of clot retraction. Glycoprotein IIb-IIIa is defective although detectable.<ref>{{cite journal | last1=Mattson | first1=Joan C. | last2=Estry | first2=Douglas W. | last3=Bell | first3=Thomas G. | last4=Patterson | first4=Wayne R. | title=Defective contact activation of platelets from dogs with basset hound hereditary thrombopathy | journal=Thrombosis Research | publisher=Elsevier BV | volume=44 | issue=1 | year=1986 | issn=0049-3848 | doi=10.1016/0049-3848(86)90177-5 | pages=23–38| pmid=3787559 }}</ref>

The Basset Hound is prone to several skin conditions: allergic skin disease; [[intertrigo]]; [[Malassezia dermatitis]]; and [[otitis]], [[keratinization defect|primary keratinization defects]].<ref>{{cite book | last1=Hnilica | first1=Keith A. | last2=Patterson | first2=Adam P. | title=Small Animal Dermatology | publisher=Saunders | publication-place=St. Louis (Miss.) | date=2016-09-19 | isbn=978-0-323-37651-8 | page=}}</ref>

The Basset Hound is one of the more commonly affected breeds for [[primary open angle glaucoma]]. An [[autosomal recessive]] mutation of the [[ADAMTS17]] gene is responsible for the condition in the breed.<ref>{{cite book |author1-first=James A.C. |author1-last=Oliver |author2-first=Cathryn S. |author2-last=Mellersh | editor1-first=Barbara | editor1-last=Cooper | editor2-first=Elizabeth |editor2-last=Mullineaux |editor3-first=Lynn | editor3-last=Turner |title=BSAVA Textbook of Veterinary Nursing |date=2020 |publisher=British Small Animal Veterinary Association |isbn=978-1-910-44339-2 |edition=Sixth|chapter=Genetics| page=131}}</ref>