scott@vtx-cpd.com

Hello everyone!

It is so nice to hear everyone’s backgrounds.

We want you to get as much as possible out of the course and want this to be a very safe space to ask any questions you like! If you are not comfortable asking questions on the discussion forum, you are always welcome to email me directly.

Hope you are all having a lovely week.

Scott 🙂

Replying to austeja Zykute 08/09/2021 - 08:16

Hey.

We get it from a company called BOVA who do a lot of reformulations. They have lots of great products actually.

I would drop them and email and see if they can help:

https://www.bova.co.uk/contact/

Hope that helps.

Scott 🙂

Replying to Emma Holt 21/08/2021 - 10:46

Emma! This answer would suggest that you are not rubbish at cytology!!!!!

We did FNA the SC mass and it was consistent with lipoma.

I will see if there are any takers for the cytology before sharing the next bits!

Scott 🙂

Replying to pippa coupe 16/08/2021 - 16:54

Thank you for your reply Pippa.

Really helpful. I hope you are safe and well.

Sx

Replying to Ekaterina Stadnik 08/08/2021 - 14:19

This is a great question.

The short answer is that these parameters can very, regardless of the type of liver disease. Post prandial bile acids are normally increases in cases of cPSS, but there can be some outliers. This was highlighted in a recent paper:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33955592/

Postprandial SBAs are more sensitive but less specific than resting SBAs for the diagnosis of liver disease. There were dogs in all categories of liver disease with resting SBAs <10 and >90 μmol/L. Therefore, careful interpretation of both normal and elevated values is required.

Ammonia can be even more variable. It can absolutely be used as a guide for the diagnosis of cPSS and encephalopathy, but it is not absolute.

I would be suspicious your cases does have a cPSS… could you mind sharing the results with us?

We will pop up the recording of the Q&A so you can review the content.

Scott 🙂

Replying to Simon Patchett 01/08/2021 - 12:16

Yes!

Took me a minute to see it as the pathology is mainly over the heart. Once you see it, I think it is a really good example of an alveolar pattern.

It was a real shame with this dog, it did really well recovering from heat stroke and AKI, just as he was about to go home, he aspirated!!!!!!!

Sadly was PTS due to finance.

Scott