Dr Jane Armstrong discusses Feline Hepatic Lipidosis.

Dr. Jane Armstrong is a graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College in Canada. Following a year in private practice, she completed an internship at the University of Illinois, followed by a residency in internal medicine and a Master’s degree at Michigan State University. Dr. Armstrong was a faculty member at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine for 7 years before moving to the University of Minnesota. She completed an MBA at the Carlson School of Management in 1999. She is now a Professor in the Veterinary Clinical Sciences Department at the University of Minnesota. Her interests within small animal internal medicine include clinical nutrition, especially obesity, and gastrointestinal diseases. Dr. Armstrong holds board certification in the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. She is a recent past-President of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Small Animal) and the Comparative Gastroenterology Society, and is a member of the WSAVA Liver Standardization Group.

Archived Under: Endocrinology, Feline Medicine, Internal Medicine

Protexin Veterinary is pleased to present a webinar that will deliver case-based information on the pathogenesis, diagnosis and management of feline lower urinary tract disease.

Archived Under: Feline Medicine, Internal Medicine

Cytology is a frequently underused tool for a variety of reasons. Lack of time, poor sample quality (diagnostic failure) and insufficient training are most often cited as a cause for cytology to be used sparingly or altogether avoided. As a technique within the vet’s diagnostic toolkit, it is actually a lot simpler than some think: by taking some straight forward precautions, using a simplified sampling approach for lumps and bumps as well as internal organs, high sample cellularity can be ensured. And for those that have the interest, valuable information can be obtained from reviewing specimens in order to quickly orient diagnosis. By incorporating sampling tips, and with a little bit of experience gained over time from examining smears regularly, the first opinion veterinarian will be able to improve technique to ensure that specimens examined or referred are of high diagnostic quality. For those that wish to examine their own specimens, they will be able to diagnose a range of lesions and become better able over time to decide when to refer a specimen to a specialist. Classification of non inflammatory and inflammatory lesions will be explored, as well as how to assess malignancy and understand the common artefacts that one can come across during a cytological examination and which can hinder a diagnosis or perplex the untrained microscopist.
Several techniques and a dozen ‘special’ tips will be provided during this presentation for vets to maximise sample quality and learn the step-wise microscopic approach to examining a specimen. Finally, several case studies will illustrate referral of cytology as well as understand the positioning of cytology within telereferral during diagnostic and therapeutic work-up.

Archived Under: Internal Medicine

Danièlle Gunn-Moore discusses Mycobacteria in cats.

Danièlle Gunn-Moore graduated with Distinction from the R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh, in 1991. After a year in small animal practice she joined The Feline Centre, University of Bristol, initially as the Feline Advisory Bureau Scholar, then the Duphar Feline Fellow, and completed a PhD study into Feline Infectious Peritonitis in 1997. After a short period as Lecturer in Veterinary Pathology, University of Bristol, she returned to Edinburgh to establish the Feline Clinic. She is now Professor of Feline Medicine and Head of Companion Animal Sciences. She is interested in all aspects of feline medicine; she is an internationally recognised expert in her area, lectures extensively and her work has been published widely. In 2009 she was awarded the BSAVA Woodrow Award for outstanding contribution in the field of small animal veterinary medicine, and in 2011 she was awarded the International Society for Feline Medicine / Hill’s award for Outstanding Contributions to Feline Medicine. She shares her home with her husband Frank and two beautiful cats; a 13 year old Bengal girl called Teaninich and 7 year old Maine Coon boy called Mortlach (both named after Scottish single malt whiskies).

Archived Under: Feline Medicine, Internal Medicine

David Murdoch will discuss colonic diarrhoea.

David worked as a lecturer in Internal Medicine in the Small Animal Departments of Glasgow and Liverpool Universities. For the last few years, he has been in Practice seeing both First Opinion and Referral cases in Gastro-Enterology and is a recipient of Blaine Award. He has lectured extensive in the UK and Europe and has contributed to several text books.

Archived Under: Internal Medicine

This webinar will focus on diabetic cats and dogs that present particular difficulties. These include diabetics that present with ketoacidosis, or those that have failed to stabilise despite reasonable efforts to get their condition under control.  Diabetes mellitus is occasionally presented with intercurrent diseases that may affect the management of the diabetes. In particular acromegaly is increasingly being recognised as a complicating factor, however hypeadrenocorticism, hypothyroidisim, and hyperthyroidisim will also be mentioned.

Case examples will be used to illustrate how investigations of unstable diabetics can lead to an improvement in the glycaemic control. Although this webinar follows on from “Diabetes melitus: from first consult to long term survival” given on December 1st 2011, the two presentation are entirely separate and can be viewed independently.

Ian Ramsey graduated from Liverpool University, obtained a PhD on feline leukaemia virus at Glasgow University and then completed his residency at Cambridge University where he was awarded the RCVS Diploma in Small Animal Medicine and the Diploma of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine. In 1998 Ian returned to Glasgow University where he is now the Professor of Small Animal Medicine. Ian is the editor of the latest (7th) edition of the BSAVA Small Animal Formulary.

Archived Under: Endocrinology, Internal Medicine

This webinar will be given by Gregers Gregerson and Kristian Penderson on osteoarthritis. Joint pain due to osteoarthritis is a common disease in dogs, cats and horses. Several investigators report osteoarthritis to be a problem in approximately 20% of dogs above 1 year of age. Osteoarthritis has a great impact on the quality of life of these animals, and joint pain in animals with osteoarthritis can be very difficult to treat effectively. Today most of these patients will be treated with 1) anti-inflammatory drugs, analgesics and hyaluronic acid injections, 2) surgical intervention, and 3) nutritional supplementation. These approaches often offer only a temporary relief and some may have unpleasant side effects, e.g. NSAIDs.The Goldtreat Local Gold Treatment (LGT) technique for osteoarthritis, where metallic Gold implants (Berlock® implants) are placed close to the diseased joints is a medical concept resulting from recent research that has proved that there is a release of gold ions from implanted metallic gold and that the surface square of implants is important. This webinar will look into the findings in great detail.

Archived Under: Internal Medicine, Orthopaedics

Archived Under: Exotics, Internal Medicine

Diabetes mellitus in dogs is a common disease that can prove uncommonly difficult and frustrating to stabilise. Identifying the disease is easy but adequate assessment of owner and patient needs to be considered before therapy is started. Once treatment has started the success depends on strong client- practice interaction. This starts with that all-important first consultation. Clear objectives need to agreed at this time and the monitoring of a particular patient established. The diet, insulin and lifestyle all need to be considered and adjusted when necessary. The influence of concurrent diseases and medication need to be considered as well.

Archived Under: Internal Medicine

Further, while MRSA often attracts the most attention, methicillin-resistant S. pseudintermedius (MRSP) has emerged at an astounding rate and is now a very important animal health risk. This multidrug resistant bacterium has increased dramatically internationally, particularly as a cause of skin, ear and surgical site infections. Often much more resistant than MRSA, some MRSP infections (especially orthopedic surgery-associated infections) can be very difficult, leading to longterm, expensive, often frustrating and sometimes futile treatment courses. MRSP poses a clear and significant risk to the pet population, similar to the situation with MRSA in humans, and highlights the need for careful attention to patient management, antimicrobial use, infection control and disease surveillance, to try to limit its impact

Archived Under: Dermatology, Internal Medicine