Pancreatitis… What the feline is new?

Pancreatitis in cats, although commonly diagnosed, still presents many diagnostic and management challenges. Accurate diagnosis of pancreatitis in cats requires the combination of history and clinical findings, diagnostic imaging, laboratory data, and potentially cytology or histopathology. Our understanding and recognition of inflammatory diseases of the feline pancreas has changed a lot over the last few years. This improvement in our understanding of the disease is due to marked improvements in diagnostic imaging modalities, minimally invasive clinical chemistry testing methods, and acknowledgement that the clinical manifestations of pancreatic disease in the cat are significantly different from those seen in the dog. In this webinar we explore the most up to date approach to the diagnosis and treatment of feline pancreatitis. Steroids or not… that is the question.

Scott Kilpatrick

Director, Internal Medicine Specialist

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Scott graduated from Edinburgh Vet School in 2007. Initially, he worked for the PDSA, before taking a Senior Veterinary Surgeon position with Vets Now in Edinburgh in 2010. Scott started his residency in internal medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 2012 after completing a year as a Teaching Fellow in Anatomy and Physiology. He completed his residency in 2016 after finishing his Masters in the pathogenesis of canine liver disease and has since been working in referral practice. Interventional radiology is something that really interests Scott, and he spent some time in 2018, working in this area at UC Davis in California. Scott has created and delivered a Post-graduate Certificate in Small Animal Emergency Medicine in association with the University of Chester. In 2023 he was awarded Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (FRCVS) for his meritorious contribution to clinical practice.