Posts tagged "News"
Risk factors for cluster seizures in canine idiopathic epilepsy
Cluster seizures (CS), two or more seizures within a 24-hour period, are reported in 38–77% of dogs ...
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Equine Oncology: Don’t horse around looking for answers
Earlier this year, we launched our unique online veterinary Academy Series in association with the U...
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Procedural Sedation and Anesthesia in cats
Procedural sedation and anesthesia (PSA) is defined as the process of depressing a patient’s conscio...
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CASE REPORT: Paradoxical vestibular syndrome in a guinea pig
In exotic small mammals, vestibular syndrome is generally linked to chronic cases of otitis interna ...
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Do you see CE as a career burden or a career booster?
Don’t just opt for CE that is local, cheap or free. Take a strategic approach. Consider the bigger p...
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Proposed grading scheme for inflammatory bowel disease in ferrets and correlation with clinical signs
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic intestinal inflammatory disease that affects several s...
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Surgery of corneal ulcers
Corneal ulcers are commonly found in cats suffering with feline herpesvirus infection with medical t...
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Neurofilament light chain as a biomarker of meningoencephalitis of unknown etiology in dogs
Neurofilaments (Nfs) are neuron specific proteins that are highly expressed in axons. When axonal da...
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The importance of bats
Forget about the myths and legends that have besmirched their reputation – bats play an important ro...
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Dilated Cardiomyopathy and QRS Complex Duration in Dogs
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a common cause of cardiac disease in both humans and dogs. Several s...
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Deslorelin implants in domestic rats
Most spontaneous mammary gland tumors in domestic rats are fibroadenomas. The treatment of choice is...
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CASE REPORT: Beta coronavirus outbreak on a horse breeding farm
Beta coronaviruses (BCoV) are often associated with gastrointestinal diseases in young horses but th...
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Do cats cry more at night?
Tear film production is a parameter to evaluate while performing a complete ophthalmic examination -...
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Decreased expression of caspase-14 in an experimental model of canine atopic dermatitis
Alterations in skin barrier function and filaggrin expression have been reported in atopic dermatiti...
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Hypophysectomy to treat hypersomatotropism
Hypersomatotropism is a condition increasingly seen in cats and it is caused by a growth hormone (GH...
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Dealing with Cat Scratch Disease
While there have been advances in understanding Cat Scratch Disease (CSD), relatively little is stil...
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Large bowel resection and anastomosis in a domestic rabbit
After 3 days of anorexia and lethargy, a 3-year-old, male neutered rabbit was diagnosed with rabbit ...
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Proteinuria in dogs with gallbladder mucocele formation: A retrospective case control study
Kidney disease in dogs is frequently associated with an excess of protein in the urine. Urine protei...
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CT scan ‘tree-in-bud’ pattern and bronchial disease in cats
The ‘tree-in-bud’ pattern found during Computed Tomography (CT) scans is used in human medicine to h...
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Resting and postprandial serum bile acid concentrations in dogs with liver disease
Serum bile acids (SBA) are frequently measured in dogs, but there is limited data on their efficacy ...
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Robenacoxib efficacy for the treatment of chronic degenerative joint disease-associated pain in cats: a randomized and blinded pilot clinical trial
The main objective of this pilot study was to evaluate the results obtained from the assessment of t...
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The Improve International Group Supports ATVs at IBERZOO PROPET 2023
The Improve International Group joins the Iberzoo Propet 2023 in Madrid, Spain, one of the biggest e...
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Vets against COVID-19
COVID-19 is caused by a novel coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2 and it has affected all of our lives thi...
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Progressive myelomalacia
Progressive myelomalacia (PMM) is characterized by progressive necrosis of the spinal cord after acu...
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What do you hope to get out of your Continuing Education this year?
Think about the needs of your practice as a whole. Identify any key “practice builder” skills you la...
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The future of canine glaucoma therapy
Glaucoma, whether primary or secondary, is the main cause of blindness in dogs. The uncontrollable i...
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Progressive increases in creatine kinase (CK) activity in an anorexic cat with necrotizing myopathy
Necrotizing myopathy (NM) is not very often diagnosed in small animals, but it might be underestimat...
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Nutrition and Cognition
Aging leads to changes that can negatively affect cognition in pets (and humans) and, in fact, a dog...
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Improve International launches new online Feline Nursing programme in partnership with ISVPS
An online Feline Nursing course has been launched by Improve International in order to help nurse te...
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Buccal administration of tiletamine-zolazepam to sedate cats
The most commonly used routes to administer sedatives and analgesics in veterinary medicine are intr...
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