Advances in Small Animal Care, 2024
- 1st Edition, Volume 5-1 - October 3, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Philip H. Kass
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 4 6 7 2 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 4 6 7 3 - 9
Advances in Small Animal Care reviews the year’s most important findings and updates within the field in order to provide practitioners with the current clinical information… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdvances in Small Animal Care reviews the year’s most important findings and updates within the field in order to provide practitioners with the current clinical information they need to improve patient outcomes. A distinguished editorial board identifies key areas of major progress and controversy and invites preeminent specialists to contribute original articles devoted to topics including behavior, diagnostic imaging, gastroenterology, nutrition, and urology. These insightful overviews in small animal care inform and enhance clinical practice by bringing concepts to a clinical level and exploring their everyday impact on patient care.
- Contains 15 articles on such topics as maternal behavior in domestic dogs; artificial intelligence and diagnostic imaging; miRNA as a biomarker in small animal GI inflammation and cancer; nutritional considerations in senior pets and aging; novel extracorporeal approach to treat bacterial and viral diseases; the future of veterinary nephrology; and more.
- Provides in-depth, clinical reviews in small animal care, providing actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information in the field under the leadership of an experienced editorial team. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.
Veterinary Medicine (Small animal)
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Advances in Small Animal Care
- Contributors
- Preface
- SECTION I - BEHAVIOR
- Maternal Behavior in Domestic Dogs
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Mourning in Veterinary Medicine
- Key points
- Introduction and background
- Grief in animals
- Grief in pet animals
- What about cats?
- Recognizing death
- Healing
- Euthanasia
- Mourning in the caregiver
- Anticipatory grief
- Mourning in the veterinarian
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Cats Living Together: How to Cope with a Multi-cat Household
- Key points
- Introduction
- Factors to consider before introducing a new cat
- Environmental enrichments in multi-cat households
- Behavioral problems related to multi-cat households
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Supplementary data
- SECTION II - DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING
- Computed Tomographic Imaging of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Small Animals
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary and future avenues
- Clinics care points
- Advanced Imaging of Small Mammals
- Key points
- Introduction
- Significance
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Imaging
- Key points
- Introduction
- Significance
- Image acquisition
- Workflow optimization
- Computer-aided diagnosis
- Radiomics
- Generative artificial intelligence
- Future considerations
- Summary
- Disclosure
- Clinics care points
- SECTION III - GASTROENTEROLOGY
- Clinical Guidelines for Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Companion Animals
- Key points
- Introduction
- Clinical guidelines development process
- Clinical guidelines for fecal microbiota transplantation in companion animals
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Supplementary data
- MicroRNA as Biomarkers in Small Animal Gastrointestinal Inflammation and Cancer
- Key points
- Introduction
- Chronic inflammatory enteropathy
- Gastrointestinal neoplasia
- The use of biomarkers in gastrointestinal inflammatory disease and in gastrointestinal cancer
- MicroRNA
- MicroRNA in gastrointestinal inflammation and cancer in dogs and cats
- Challenges of using microRNA as diagnostic biomarkers
- Future implementation of microRNAs for gastrointestinal disease in small animal care
- Summary
- Vitamin D Metabolism in Canine Protein-Losing Enteropathy
- Key points
- Vitamin D metabolism
- Limitations of the current literature
- Vitamin D in protein-losing enteropathy
- How to measure vitamin D?
- When and how to supplement vitamin D?
- Monitoring vitamin D supplementation in protein-losing enteropathy
- Iatrogenic vitamin D toxicity
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Supplementary data
- Comparative Cytology and Histology in Canine and Feline Gastrointestinal Neoplasia: Advantages and Challenges
- Key points
- Introduction
- Sampling
- Round cell neoplasia
- Epithelial neoplasia
- Mesenchymal neoplasia
- Non-neoplastic tumor-like lesions
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- SECTION IV - NUTRITION
- Conversations and Considerations Relevant to Nutrition for Senior Pets
- Key points
- Introduction
- Significance
- The process of aging: what is happening?
- When is my pet considered “senior”?
- What can be done to slow the aging process or support “healthy” aging for my pet?
- Sarcopenia and frailty
- Will energy requirements change as dogs or cats become “senior”?
- Should aging pets eat more or less? Controversies around dietary protein and fat
- Omega-3 fatty acids
- Dietary fiber, probiotics, and the gut microbiome
- Managing age-related declines in cognition & behavior, osteoarthritis, or other diseases
- Behavior and cognition
- Osteoarthritis and impaired mobility
- Dietary considerations for senior pets and pet food
- Supporting food intake
- Senior diets for dogs & cats and nutrient considerations
- Future avenues for research
- Clinics care points
- Rational Approach and Dietary Considerations for Managing Dogs with Swallowing Impairment (Dysphagia)
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Esophageal disorders
- Future considerations
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- SECTION V - UROLOGY
- New Therapeutic Approaches to Management of Anemia and Iron Metabolism in Chronic Kidney Disease
- Key points
- Introduction
- Consequences of anemia
- Physiology of red blood cell production
- Treatment options
- Iron homeostasis, assessment and treatment
- Future directions
- Clinics care points
- The Future of Veterinary Nephrology and Urology: Historical and Editorial Perspective
- Key points
- Introduction
- The organization and educational future of veterinary nephrology
- The future of veterinary nephrology and urology as a clinical specialty
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Extracorporeal Removal of Viral and Bacterial Pathogens
- Key points
- Introduction
- Adding and adjunctive option to drugs for the management of infectious diseases
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 5-1
- Published: October 3, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443246722
- eBook ISBN: 9780443246739
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Philip H. Kass
Affiliations and expertise
Philip H. Kass, BS, DVM, MPVM, MS, PhD, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Professor of Analytic Epidemiology, University of California, Davis, USA