Source: CVC IN BALTIMORE PROCEEDINGS
April 1, 2008
By:
Craig Datz, DVM, MS, DABVP
There are a number of causes of decreased platelets in dogs and cats, but whenever platelet counts fall acutely an immune-mediated disorder should be suspected.
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Source: CVC IN BALTIMORE PROCEEDINGS
April 1, 2008
By:
Wendy Baltzer, DVM, PhD, DACVS
Osteoarthritis affects diarthrodial joints of small animals including the shoulder, elbow, carpus, hip, stifle, tarsus, and spinal articulations.
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Source: DVM360 MAGAZINE
December 1, 2007
By:
Krista Schultz
Columbia, Mo. — University of Missouri researchers have developed an in vitro joint model that replaces laboratory animals, cuts costs and improves safety when studying human and canine arthritis.
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Source: VETERINARY MEDICINE
March 1, 2007
By:
Julie D. Smith, DVM, DACVS
Geriatric dogs are commonly referred to us for evaluation of what clients call slowing down. Often the tentative diagnosis before referral is arthritis (or is interpreted by the client as such), and the dog is receiving an NSAID.
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Source: VETERINARY MEDICINE
January 1, 2007
By:
Joseph Harari, MS, DVM, DACVS
In this controlled clinical trial from a university hospital, nine dogs with chronic forelimb lameness and radiographic evidence of elbow osteoarthritis were treated with electrostimulated acupuncture.
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Source: DVM360 MAGAZINE
November 1, 2006
By:
Linda Marie Wetzel
Columbia, MO — A group of researchers is exploring ways to diagnose and treat osteoarthritis in the earliest stages, before irreversible damage is done to joints.
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Source: VETERINARY MEDICINE
February 1, 2006
By:
Simon Roe, BVSc, PhD, DACVS
When addressing arthritis in cats, we presume similarities to arthritis in dogs, interpreting radiographs and clinical signs with canine differential diagnoses in mind. And we develop therapies based on how dogs are managed. But these presumptions have little scientific basis. In fact, we know little about how many cats have arthritis, what effect their arthritis has on their lifestyles, or to what degree therapy improves their comfort level.
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Source: Clinical Edge
October 1, 2004
By:
William J. Burkholder, DVM, PhD, DACVN, Lathrop Taylor, PhD, Donald A. Hulse, DVM, DACVS
A comprehensive weight-loss program that returns overweight dogs to optimal body weight and body condition can improve osteoarthritic dogs' ability to move more normally. In a study conducted at Texas A&M University, moderately overweight to obese dogs lost weight through a combination of a weight-management diet and increased exercise. Based on force-plate gait analysis, the dogs exerted significantly more force on each limb and moved more quickly. The abstract below, published in the proceedings of the 2000 Purina Nutrition Forum, provides additional details.
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Source: Clinical Edge
October 1, 2004
By:
Steven C. Budsberg, DVM, MS, DACVS
Osteoarthritis is the most common rheumatic disease encountered in small animal practice. No longer is osteoarthritis regarded as a simple consequence of aging and cartilage degeneration, but rather, the pathologic changes of osteoarthritis may result from active biochemical and biomechanical processes partly due to disturbances of the homeostatic mechanisms of anabolic and catabolic pathways. As to the cause of osteoarthritis, there is no one etiology and its cause may be multifactorial. While there are many initiating causes, osteoarthritis is an irreversible process that often results in an end-stage clinical syndrome of the joint.
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