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At-Home DNA Tests: Crystal Ball With a Caveat

Whether clients are using at-home DNA tests to satiate pure curiosity about their pet’s breed or as a means to uncover health predispositions, veterinarians should be part of the process as a means of information.

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Update on Clinical Acute Pain Assessment in Cats

Inadequately diagnosed and treated acute pain can result in serious, lifelong physiologic and psychologic consequences. Implementation of pain assessment tools can improve a veterinary hospital’s success in pain management.

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Decoding Vaccine Titers: A Literature-Based Review of Vaccine Titers in Companion Animal Practice

Clients might be asking you about vaccine titers before opting into vaccinations. Give them the full rundown on what titers do and don't cover.

Diagnostics

Ultrasound-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration and Core Biopsy

Ultrasound-guided sampling techniques are relatively safe, low cost, minimally invasive techniques for obtaining diagnostic tissue samples.

Diagnostics

Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Veterinary Patients

Continuous glucose monitors for companion animals with diabetes have become more commonplace in veterinary medicine as the advancement and affordability have progressed past more traditional methods.

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Uncovering the Cause of Fever in Cats

Considering all risk factors for individual cats should help the veterinarian narrow the focus, optimize testing, and achieve a diagnosis.

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An Uncontrolled Diabetic Dog

Evaluating a poorly controlled diabetic pet can be frustrating for both the clinician and the owner. A thorough examination of the patient, along with careful monitoring, are critical in successfully stabilizing these animals.

Diagnostics

Uncovering the Cause of Fever in Dogs

How to use an ordered and logical diagnostic and treatment protocol to determine the origin of a fever in veterinary practice.

Diagnostics

Weakness & Collapse in a Beagle

Ann Della Maggiore, DVM, and Richard Nelson, DVM, Diplomate ACVIM Blue, a 10-year-old spayed female beagle, presented to the University of California William Prichard Veterinary Teaching Hospital to be evaluated for a 4-month history of episodic weakness and collapse.

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Senior Cat with Front Paw Swelling and Pain

Diagnosing primary metastatic bronchial carcinoma in a cat can be difficult when the patient’s primary clinical sign is lameness. Lung-digit syndrome should be high on the list of diagnostic differentials.

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