Apr 1, 2010
By:
Leah A. Cohn, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Inhalant delivery of Aerosolized medication offers a number of theoretical benefits including an enormous absorptive surface area across a permeable membrane, a low enzyme environment that results in little drug degradation, avoidance of hepatic first-pass metabolism, and reproducible absorption kinetics.
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Apr 1, 2010
By:
Leah A. Cohn, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Pleural effusion is a relatively common cause of respiratory distress in the dog and cat. Both species are affected by several types of effusion, with numerous causes and variable prognosis.
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Apr 1, 2010
By:
Leah A. Cohn, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Feline asthma is one of the most common bronchopulmonary diseases in cats and is responsible for substantial morbidity and occasional mortality. It is an IgE mediated hypersensitivity response against what otherwise would be harmless environmental Aeroallergens.
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Aug 1, 2008
By:
Leah A. Cohn, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Inhalant delivery of aerosolized medication offers a number of theoretical benefits including an enormous absorptive surface area across a permeable membrane, a low enzyme environment that results in little drug degradation, avoidance of hepatic first-pass metabolism, and reproducible absorption kinetics.
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Aug 1, 2008
By:
Leah A. Cohn, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Cough is a common reason for dogs to be presented for veterinary care, and tracheal collapse is a common cause of chronic cough in dogs.
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Aug 1, 2008
By:
Leah A. Cohn, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Recent years have seen the emergence of previously undescribed respiratory infections in dogs and cats.
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Aug 1, 2008
By:
Leah A. Cohn, DVM, PhD, DACVIM
Bacterial pneumonia encompasses a wide spectrum of disease, from chronic to acute, unilobar or multilobar, and with clinical signs ranging from mild tachypnea or cough to rapidly progressive and fatal pulmonary infection.
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