Posts tagged "Small Animal Medicine"

About 18 months ago, I “outed” myself as having an interest in pseudopregnancy in dogs. This has res...

Renal replacement therapy (RRT) is increasingly used in veterinary medicine. These life-saving techn...

Imagine this clinical scenario: you have been presented with a two-year-old spayed female cat with h...

Photobiomodulation therapy or “PBMT” sounds rather intimidating, but you might know it by its more w...

There is very little evidence to support the use of a special cancer diet in people or dogs. There i...

When examining a patient with vestibular signs, it is crucial to collect details of signalment and h...

Many practices have purchased endoscopy systems for diagnostic biopsy of the gastrointestinal (GI) a...

Liver neoplasia in dogs most commonly represents metastatic disease from other tumour sites (eg panc...

Domestic rabbits originate from the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), and are an increasingly...

Oral tumours account for 6 to 7 percent of all canine tumours and, in most cases, are malignant (Lee...

Feline diabetics can be challenging to manage. We know that monitoring response to insulin and avoid...

Heart disease affects 10 percent of dogs in general practice (Keene et al., 2019), with myxomatous m...

Urinary bladder cancer accounts for around 2 percent of all neoplasia reported in dogs, and transiti...

Since it was first defined at the turn of the century, metronomic chemotherapy (MC) has seen increas...

Bladder disease is very amenable to the use of imaging for investigation. Indications for investigat...

Canine myxomatous mitral valve disease (MMVD) is a common condition in which progressive mitral valv...

Sterile pyogranulomatous/granulomatous dermatitis is also referred to as juvenile cellulitis, puppy ...

Feline chronic enteropathy (CE) covers a number of conditions including food-responsive enteropathie...

How likely is a localised histiocytic sarcoma in dogs to disseminate and metastasise? How common is ...

Imagine this clinical scenario: you are presented with a three-year-old neutered male Labrador Retri...

Mammary tumours are extremely common in dogs and cats, and these can be emotive cases as clients are...

Lameness in dogs due to musculotendinous and ligamentous injury is commonplace and although diagnosi...

In general practice the term interdigital cyst is commonly used to describe a range of conditions af...

Imagine this clinical scenario: the owner of a geriatric cat diagnosed with hyperthyroidism is seeki...

Malassezia dermatitis (also referred to as Malassezia overgrowth syndrome) and otitis may be more pr...

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is defined as fluid accumulation caused by an inability of the heart ...

Animal physiotherapists are highly skilled members of the veterinary multidisciplinary team (MDT). U...

The gastrointestinal (GI) system comprises the mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestines (duodenu...

Mast cell tumours are the most common form of skin cancer in dogs, accounting for up to 21 percent o...