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Unfortunately, at the moment, there are no reliable blood tests that will detect pregnancy in the cat.
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Second opinions and referrals often cause great anxiety to owners, irrespective of whether suggested by the vet or considered as a possibility by the pet owner. Sometimes, despite every…
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What is colitis? Colitis refers to inflammation of the colon which is part of the large intestine. Colitis is often used to describe diarrhoea associated with the large bowel. Your vet may also describe this as large intestinal diarrhoea as opposed to diarrhoea arising from the small intestine
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Until relatively recently the only images used for diagnostic purposes in small animal practice were x-rays. By the mid 1980s few small animal practices were without their own in-house…
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When my dog had his annual check up prior to re-vaccination the vet noticed he had an irregular heartbeat and has suggested that he comes in for an ECG An ECG is an electrocardiogram. When any…
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An endoscope is essentially a miniature telescope involving modern fibre optics. It can be rigid or flexible. Endoscopes can be used for the direct visual inspection (and photography) of any…
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There are few of us today unaware of the advantages of x-rays. However radiography in the dog tends to be a little more complicated in that you mostly are unable to tell your patient to lie…
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Ultrasound examinations, ultrasonography or echosonography, to use some of the terms, is an imaging technique in which deep structures of the body can be visualised by recording echoes of ultrasonic waves which are directed into the tissues.
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von Willebrand's (vWD) disease is a very common inherited bleeding disorder affecting man and animals. It is due to a deficiency of a special protein known as vWD factor antigen. This is carried by the platelets (thrombocytes) which are blood cells that play a part in the clotting mechanism, helping to seal any injured blood vessels.
