EDITOR / INDEX
Editor’s Note
I have had requests for back copies
of the Vet360. These are available,
just email the Vetlink office admin@
vetlink.co.za. We are also going to
create a bibliography of articles based
on the topics. This will be updated after each edition. Printing is however
expensive, so this will only be available on the website at vet360.vetlink.
co.za.
Over the last few years we are seeing
increasing numbers of Scottish Terriers with hepatopathy
and showing very elevated ALP concentrations and gall
bladder mucocoeles . I have put together several articles
to shed some light on this matter.
Feline corona virus is endemic and FIP is a terminal diagnosis. The jigsaw puzzle pieces provided in the article by
Dr Hooijberg, an OP graduate, should help you diagnose
these cases more accurately.
Regards
Index:
• The Management Working Capital
4
• Journal Scan: Imepitoin, a New Drug to Manage
and Control Canine Idiopathic Epilepsy
7
• Journal Scan: Maropitant as s a Novel Treatment
for Chronic Bronchitis in Dogs
8
• Treating The Wounded: New Strategies in Healing
10
• Nutrition: Cancer and Patient Care
12
• CPD ACCREDITED ARTICLE: The FIP Jigsaw Puzzle
14
• Nail Diseases
22
• Vacuolar Hepatopathy in the Scottish Terrier
24
• An Update on Gallbladder Mucocoeles in Dogs
27
• Surgical Management of Biliary Tract Disease
33
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