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29 & 30 October - Johannesburg
25 & 26 October - Cape Town
Institute of
Veterinary
Practice
Development
Manage and Improve the Performance
of your Veterinary Business
In association with
BUSINESS ACADEMY
DAY 1
Growing your practice - Dr Rourke Crosson
Managing the financial performance of a Vet Business
- Andrew Christie
Capital Expenditure Decisions - Andrew Christie
Business entity type and implications - Phia van der Spu
Estate planning - Phia van der Spuy
8 Practical Facebook Tips and Ideas for Vets - Johan Mouton
10 Instagram Best Practices for Vets - Johan Mouton
Advertising rules - SAVC - Myths and Facts - John Adam
DAY 2
Help - Veterinary staff are different! Managing vet employees
- Andrew Butters
25 & 26 October 2018, Cape Town
Help - Veterinary staff are different! Motivating vet employees
29 & 30 October 2018, Johannesburg
- Andrew Butters
Creating KPIs for a Veterinary Business in SA (and using them)
- Andrew Christie
Is a complete veterinary service relevant in the marketplace
- Nadine Mayers
The future of the Veterinary Industry - Dr Alan Robinson
Creating Value in Human and Animal Health - Dr Pieter Vervoort &
Dr Hannah Aldean
Forecast for the SA Economy - Nicky Weimer
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Autoimmune Skin Disease in Dogs and Cats
Prof. Andrew Leisewitz
Companion Animal Clinical Studies
[email protected]
Andrew Leisewitz graduated with his BVSc degree in 1987. This was
followed by an Hons in 1991, an MMedVet(Med) in 1995 and a PhD in
2006. Andrew was appointed as a senior lecturer in the then Department
of Medicine at Onderstepoort in June 1990. He is been a full professor of
Companion Animal Clinical Studies since 1995 and is a diplomat of the
European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine – Companion Animals.
He has worked as a specialist clinician in the Onderstepoort Veterinary
Academic Hospital for nearly 30 years. He runs a dermatology referral clinic
within the Onderstepoort Veterinary Hospital and in a Johannesburg based
specialist referral hospital. He has initiated a dermatology specific internship
at the Faculty which will run for the first time in 2019. He is an active teacher
of undergraduate and post graduate veterinary students, and is a frequently
invited speaker and presenter of continuing education for the profession in
the sub-region. His research focusses on understanding the mechanisms
of infectious disease making use of canine babesiosis and distemper virus
infection as models for this work.
This is a unique and less common group of disease in which the body’s own
immune system turns on self – which in this case are components of the skin. We
will discuss the diseases in two broad categories, namely those diseases that are
vesicular or pustular in nature and those diseases that are not characterised be
vesicles or pustules. We will spend most of discussion time on the most common
of these disease.
Discoid lupus is probably the most common autoimmunity seen in dogs. It is not
a vesicular disease but is characterised most commonly by nasal depigmentation.
Pemphigus foliaceus is probably the second most common autoimmune skin
disease in dogs and the most common in cats. It is characterised by superficial
cleft formation (resulting in vesicles and then pustules and then crusts) in the
epidermis and typically affects the face and feet but may involve the trunk as well.
Other forms of pemphigus are significantly less common and result in cleft
formation deeper in the epidermis and have a more severe disease presentation
and poorer outcome. Pemphigus may also be triggered by idiosyncratic reactions
to drugs as well as by neoplasia. Other even less common dermal auoimmunities
include lupoid onychodystrophy, erythema multiforme and toxic epidermal
necrolysis.
Systemic autoimmunities such as systemic lupus erythematosus may also
result in skin lesions. The corner stone of diagnosis rests on histology of well
chosen, properly timed and atraumatically collected skin biopsies. Treatment
usually depends on glucocorticoid induced immunosuppression. This treatment is
frequently augmented through the addition of other systemic immunosuppressive
agents. Prognosis varies widely depending on the specific disease diagnosed.
PRICE: Free (use code AUTOIMMUNE)
DATE: 24 October 20:00 CAT
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