Feline Acromegaly: Now That You've Found It, How Do You Treat It?
In a previous rounds, we learned that many diabetics are acromegalic as well. In this follow-up session, Stijn Niessen, DVM, DECVIM-CA, MRCVS, will shed some light on your treatment options. NOTE this session begins at 8 p.m. EST Use the Rounds link in the Main Navigation bar to join the discussions. To find out what other interesting rounds topics are coming soon, see This Week's Rounds Schedule. NEWS THAT'S FIT TO CLICK and discuss
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The 2009 Australian Veterinary Association (AVA) Annual Conference will be held in Darwin, Northern Territory from May 17-22. The Conference will be hosting a forum on "One Medicine, One Health", a day of joint sessions and discussions between veterinary, medical and environmental scientists to confront and collaborate on issues of common interest and to work together for their common benefit. Register online and start planning your trip early!
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The pest, named Anti-Virus-1, is complicated. The advertisements are for antivirus software. When a user clicks on them, the ads redirect to a pornography website. Then a PDF pops up loaded with malicious code, exploiting a weakness in the Adobe Acrobat system. A file named "winratit.exe" is loaded into the user's temporary files folder. The host file is also modified so that if the user tries to browse to popular software download sites to remedy the infected machine, s/he is instead directed to a malicious website offering further malicious downloads.
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The role of hypoxia in canine cancer
Hypoxia is a significant problem in the treatment of all types of solid tumours and a common reason for treatment failure. Hypoxia is a negative prognostic indicator of survival and is correlated with the development of metastatic disease.
Emerging zoonoses: the challenge for public health and biodefense
Lessons learned from the emergence of and response to agents like West Nile virus, H5N1 avian influenza, SARS and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the cause of new-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, must be used to create better plans for response and meet the challenge for public health and biodefense.
In oncology, when is it time to stop?
I tell the owners that there is a "line" I will not cross when it comes to quality of life (ie: if the dog gets ANY worse, I will stop treating and offering options. Sometimes I tell owners we have already crossed that line. I will also use the real words such as "your dog is suffering", "it would be cruel to continue with therapy" (notice the "would be" rather than "is" - which implies "if we continue from here on"), "ultimate proof of love for your dog", ...
How do you figure your radiography charges?
I was always taught that the client is paying for a diagnosis, not the radiograph (which the clinic owned). A complex radiographic series, such as a barium study, would necessarily be more expensive than a simple thoracic series, or limb radiographs. A "met check" (3-views chest series) would be more expensive than a simple 2-view chest series.
Options for handling aggressive cats in the veterinary clinic
We have occasional cats that we simply can't handle to sedate. We transfer those cats directly from a carrier to a squeeze cage. Once in the squeeze cage, it's a simple matter to give an IM injection.
Dog with Cushings disease and straguria; how to assess bladder size and bladder emptying in dogs that are difficult to palpate
Sometimes I have a hard time with big dog palpations too. One thing I always do, though, in every dribbling or stranguria case, is to ascertain bladder size (with ultrasound, radiograph, or palpation), then let the dog void all s/he can, then redetermine bladder size (with the same method). There should not be more than 1 ml/kg of urine left, at most. If I have any question about residual urine ...
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Sunday, March 1, 8 p.m. ET
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