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Palliative medicine and hospice care, the third option
Palliative medicine and hospice care has become a new area of interest, expertise, and opportunity in companion animal practice. It is a philosophy of care that supports good quality of life for pets ...
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Debra Teachout
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| Cardiology |
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Collapse, syncope, and exercise intolerance
Episodic collapse, syncope, and exercise intolerance are all clinical signs that occur intermittently. As a result, it is difficult to investigate the cause of these clinical signs. A definitive diagn...
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| Dermatology |
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Quality of life and canine atopic dermatitis
Atopic dermatitis is a chronic or chronically relapsing skin disease that adversely influences the quality of life of affected humans. Assessing quality of life in dogs is problematic, since there is ...
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Shampoo treatment using ultrapure soft water
Ultrapure soft water (UPSW) is water in which calcium and magnesium ions have been replaced with sodium ions using a cation-exchange resin. Washing a mouse model for human atopic dermatitis with soap ...
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| Diagnostic Imaging |
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Ultrasound findings in clinical staging of canine mast cell tumors
Cutaneous mast cell tumors comprise 7 to 21% of cutaneous and subcutaneous tumors in dogs. Since biologic behavior is variable, predicting clinical outcome is difficult. Currently, prognosis is based ...
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| Gastroenterology |
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Chronic pancreatitis in English Cocker Spaniels
Chronic pancreatitis is common in dogs. Its cause in dogs is generally unknown but increased relative risk for chronic pancreatitis has been reported in some breeds of dog. Pancreatitis also has diffe...
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| Nephrology/Urology |
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Glycosaminoglycan treatment of feline idiopathic cystitis
Feline lower urinary tract disease in cats is non-obstructive in 45% to 70% of cases; in 29%, the cause is obstructive. The clinical signs of interstitial cystitis in cats are dysuria, stranguria, hem...
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| Neurology |
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Ultrasonography of the sciatic nerve in cats
The sciatic nerve is the largest peripheral nerve of the body. It originates in the truncus lumbosacralis and gives origin to the peroneus communis and tibialis nerves. It is the most frequently injur...
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| Small Mammals |
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CPR in rabbits
Cardiopulmonary arrest (CPA) is relatively common in hospitalized rabbits. Causes for CPA include an underlying disease condition, anesthesia, or other physiologic stresses. CPA and a mortality rate o...
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| Surgery (Soft Tissue) |
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Degradation of absorbable suture materials
Suture material should provide a safe and secure wound closure for the duration of wound healing while minimizing morbidity. Factors involved in the decision to use a suture material to repair a speci...
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