Notes on feline internal medicine / Kit Sturgess.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sturgess, Kit.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cats--Diseases--Treatment--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Cats.

Cats--Diseases--Diagnosis--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Veterinary internal medicine--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Veterinary internal medicine.

Cats--Diseases--Diagnosis.

Cats--Diseases--Treatment.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xix, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Feline internal medicine

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Science, 2003.

Summary:

Notes on Feline Internal Medicine is one of the first books in an exciting new series specifically designed, through an accessible note-based style, to ensure veterinarians and students have quick and easy access to the most up-to-date clinical and diagnostic information. This edition includes: Differential approach to common presenting problems and laboratory abnormalities Detailed information on conditions affecting each organ system and feline infectious diseases Short sections covering breed-related diseases, paediatrics, geriatrics and therapeutics are also included For ease of reference, major conditions are subdivided into clinical signs, diagnostic approach, definitive diagnostic tests and treatment

Contents:

Section 1 Differential diagnosis 5

Clinical signs 7

Abdominal enlargement 7

Anorexia 8

Ascites 9

Ataxia 11

Behavioural changes 13

Bleeding/coagulopathies 13

Collapse/syncope 14

Cardiac murmurs 16

Constipation 17

Chronic coughing 19

Diarrhoea 20

Dysphagia 22

Dyspnoea (respiratory distress) 24

Dysrhythmias 26

Dysuria 27

Failure to grow 28

Haematemesis and haemoptysis 29

Haematochezia and melaena 30

Haematuria 31

Infertility

queens 32

males 34

Jaundice (icterus) 35

Diseases of kittens 36

Lymphadenopathy 40

Paresis and paralysis 41

Ptyalism 43

Polyuria/polydipsia 44

Pyrexia (fever) of unknown origin (PUO) 45

Regurgitation 46

Seizures 47

Sneezing and nasal discharge 49

Stiffness 50

Stupor 51

Tremor 52

Vomiting 53

Weight loss 55

Common laboratory abnormalities 56

Anaemia 56

Platelet abnormalities 57

White blood cell changes 57

Amylase and lipase 58

Azotaemia 58

Calcium imbalance 59

Cholesterol and triglycerides changes 60

Electrolyte disturbances 60

Glucose abnormalities 61

Liver enzymes, bilirubin, ammonia and bile acids 62

Muscle enzymes 63

Phosphate 63

Protein abnormalities 64

Urinalysis 65

Section 2 Organ Systems 69

Respiratory disease 71

General examination of the respiratory system 71

Disease of the upper respiratory tract (URTD) 71

Mediastinal disease 76

Lower airway disease

feline bronchopulmonary disease 76

Pulmonary thromboembolism 79

Pleural disease 80

Diaphragmatic disease 85

Cardiology 86

History and presentation 86

Congenital disease 86

Presenting clinical signs 86

Physical examination 87

Diagnostic aids 88

Arrhythmias 91

Congenital heart disease 96

Acquired cardiac disease 101

Management of feline heart failure 105

Pericardial disease 113

Heartworm disease 115

Blood pressure monitoring and hypertension 115

Gastrointestinal disease 116

Oral disease 116

Oesophageal disease 118

Gastric disease 122

Small intestinal disease 127

Large intestinal disease 134

Pancreatic disease 136

Hepatobiliary disease 138

Functions of the liver 138

History and clinical signs 138

Laboratory tests for liver disease 139

Diagnostic imaging 140

Liver biopsy 140

Liver disease 141

Renal disease 147

Functions of the kidney 147

Physical examination 147

Laboratory investigation of renal disease 147

Imaging 150

Acute renal failure (ARF) 152

Chronic renal failure (CRF) 156

Glomerulonephropathy and glomerulonephritis 161

Pathophysiology of glomerulonephritis 162

Renal neoplasia 164

Familial renal disease 164

Ureteric disease 165

Lower urinary tract disease (LUTD) 165

Clinical signs 166

Managing the obstructed cat 169

Approach to idiopathic FLUTD (iFLUTD) 171

Management of urolithiasis 174

Lower urinary tract infection 175

Neoplasia 178

Urinary incontinence 178

Endocrine disease 178

Hyperthyroidism 179

Diabetes mellitus (DM) 183

Hyperadrenocorticism 190

Acromegaly 191

Hypoparathyroidism 192

Hyperparathyroidism 193

Hypoadrenocorticism 194

Hypothyroidism 194

Insulinoma 195

Diabetes insipidus 195

APUDomas 197

Multiple endocrine neoplasia and polyendocrinopathies 197

Neurological disease 197

Neurologic examination 197

Approach to the neurologic case 201

Multifocal disease 201

Diagnosis 203

Management of neurological disease 204

Prognosis in neurologic disease 206

Specific disease states 209

Neuromuscular disease 213

Disease spectrum 213

History, clinical signs and assessment 213

General approach 213

Inherited neuropathies 214

Acquired neuropathies 215

Myopathies 216

Neuromuscular disease 216

Autonomic nervous system 217

Skeletal disease 218

Presentation 218

Investigation 218

Bone disease 218

Joint disease 223

Intervertebral disc disease 226

Disorders of the blood, haematopoietic and immune system 226

Blood disorders 226

Clotting disorders 231

Blood transfusion 235

Diseases of the immune system 236

Clinical nutrition 239

Nutritional requirements of cats 239

Life stage nutrition and energy requirements (See Table 27) 241

Dietary formulations 241

Dietary deficiency and toxicity 242

Nutrition of the hospitalised cat 242

Nutritional management of organ-related disease 246

Management of obesity 248

Section 3 Infectious Disease 251

Bordetellosis 253

Epidemiology 253

Route of infection 253

Pathogenesis 253

Clinical findings 253

Diagnosis 253

Therapy 253

Control 254

Viral upper respiratory tract infection 254

Causal agent 254

Route of infection 254

Incubation period 254

Pathogenesis 254

Clinical signs 255

Carrier status 255

Differential diagnosis 255

Diagnosis 256

Treatment 256

Control 256

Feline chlamydiosis 257

Causal organism 257

Epidemiology 257

Route of infection 257

Incubation period 257

Pathogenesis 257

Clinical signs 257

Diagnosis 258

Treatment 259

Treatment of a colony outbreak of Chlamydia 259

Vaccination 259

Zoonotic potential 260

Feline infectious anaemia 260

Causal agent 260

Route of infection 260

Incubation (preparasitaemic) period 260

Pathogenesis 260

Clinical findings 261

Diagnosis 261

Treatment 262

Prognosis 262

Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) 262

Epidemiology 262

Route of infection 263

Incubation period 263

Pathogenesis 263

Clinical signs 263

Diagnosis 264

Treatment 266

Control 266

Vaccination 266

Feline spongiform encephalopathy (FSE) 267

Causal agent 267

Route of infection 267

Incubation period 267

Pathogenesis 267

Clinical signs 267

Diagnosis 267

Treatment 267

Public health 267

Mycobacterial infections

tuberculous mycobacteria 268

Epidemiology and causal agents 268

Pathogenesis 268

Clinical findings 268

Diagnosis 268

Therapy 269

Public health 269

Feline leprosy 269

Clinical signs 269

Diagnosis 270

Treatment 270

Opportunistic rapid-growing mycobacterial infections 270

Clinical signs 270

Therapy 270

Prognosis 270

Rabies virus 270

Causal agent 270

Route of infection 271

Incubation period 271

Pathogenesis 271

Clinical signs 272

Diagnosis 272

Treatment 272

Control 272

Vaccination 273

PETS scheme 273

Zoonosis 274

Feline retroviral disease 274

Feline leukaemia virus (FeLV) 274

FOCMA (Feline oncornavirus cell membrane-associated antigen) 276

Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) 279

Other retroviruses 283

Feline sarcoma virus 283

Feline syncytium-forming virus (FeSFV) 283

RD114 284

Toxoplasmosis 284

Causal agent 284

Life cycle 284

Clinical signs 284

Diagnosis 285

Treatment 285

Prevention 285

Zoonotic risk 285

Feline viral enteritis 286

Causes of viral enteritis in cats 286

Feline parvovirus (FPV) 286

Causal agent 286

Route of infection 286

Incubation period 286

Pathogenesis 286

Clinical signs 287

Diagnosis 288

Treatment 288

Control 290

Prognosis 290

Feline (enteric) coronavirus (FECV) 291

Other infectious diseases

viral infections 291

Non-suppurative meningoencephalitis ('staggering disease') 291

Cowpox 291

Hantavirus 292

Other viral disease 292

Bacterial infections 293

Cat scratch disease 293

Borreliosis (Lyme disease) 293

Cat bite abscess 294

Feline leptospirosis 294

Salmonellosis 294

Tetanus 294

Other bacterial disease 295

Rickettsial infections 295

Ehrlichiosis 295

Fungal infections 295

Aspergillosis 295

Cryptococcus neoformans var.

gattii 295

Protozoan infections 296

Cryptosporidia 296

Cystoisospora (Isospora) 296

Giardia 296

Section 4 Breed related diseases 297

Cardiorespiratory 299

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy 299

Endocardial fibroelastosis 299

Patent ductus arteriosus 299

Persistent atrial standstill 299

Agenesis of nares 299

Pericardioperitoneal diaphragmatic hernia 300

Persistant right aortic arch 300

Gastrointestinal 300

Prognathia 300

Cleft palate/lip 300

Megaoesophagus and pyloric stenosis 300

Hiatus hernia 300

Interstinal carcinoma 300

Hairball 300

Urinary tract 300

Chronic renal failure 300

Amyloidosis 301

Polycystic kidney disease 301

Urolithiasis 301

Haematopoietic 301

Feline aortic thromboembolism 301

Neutrophil granulation anomaly 301

Chediak-Higashi syndrome 301

Clotting factor deficiencies 302

Increased erythrocyte osmotic fragility 302

Thymic aplasia 302

Lysosomal storage diseases 302

Hepatobiliary disease 303

Extra-hepatic portosystemic shunt 303

Amyloidosis 303

Peliosis hepatica 303

Hepatic lipidosis 303

Reproductive tract 303

Chromosomal abnormality 303

Special senses 304

Deafness 304

Agenesis of third eyelid 304

Cataracts 304

Corneal dystrophy 304

Dermoid 304

Entropion 304

Ectopic cilia 304

Glaucoma 304

Microphakia 304

Nystagmus and strabismus 304

Optic nerve hypoplasia/aplasia 305

Retinal degeneration/atrophy 305

Musculoskeletal 305

Fold ears 305

Hereditary myotonia 305

Hereditary myopathy 305

Hypokalaemic polymyopathy 305

X-linked muscular dystrophy 305

Myasthenia gravis 305

Flat chested kittens 305

Craniofacial abnormality 305

Chondrodysplasia 306

Hip dysplasia 306

Patellar luxation 306

Sacrocaudal dysgenesis 306

Short tail 306

Neurologic 306

Hydrocephalus 306

Hyperoxaluric neuropathy

axonopathy 306

Hyperchylomicronaemia 306

Spina bifida 306

Vestibular disorders 306

Sphingomyelinase deficiency 306

Distal axonopathy 306

Endocrine 307

Diabetes mellitus 307

Hyperparathyroidism 307

Skin 307

Alopecia universalis 307

Hypotrichosis 307

Rex mutant 307

Cutaneous asthenia (Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, dermatosparaxis) 307

Seborrhoea oleosa 307

Section 5 Paediatrics and geriontology 311

Paediatrics 313

Major causes of kitten mortality 313

Physiology 313

Physical examination 313

Evaluation 315

Investigation of neonatal disease 315

Treatment of neonatal disease 316

Specific diseases affecting the neonate 317

Neonatal isoerythrolysis 318

Fading kittens 318

Vaccination 318

Geriontology 319

When is a cat old? 319

Effects of ageing 319

Nutritional changes 319

Nutritional needs 319

Common diseases of old cats 320

Assessment of geriatric cats 320

Pharmacology and therapeutics 321

Section 6 Therapeutics including chemotherapy 323

Antimicrobials 325

Fluroquinolone 325

Chloramphenicol 325

Tetracycline 325

Potentiated sulphonamides 326

Penicillins 326

Aminoglycosides 326

Lincosamides 326

Metronidazole 326

Analgesics and sedatives 327

NSAIDs 327

Toxicity 327

Aspirin 327

Carprofen 327

Flunixin 327

Ketoprofen 327

Meloxicam 327

Paracetamol 328

Corticosteroids 328

Side effects 328

Cardioactive drugs 328

Drug alterations in renal failure 328

Drug alterations in hepatic insufficiency 329

Chemotherapy 329

Dose rates 329

Immunosuppression 330

Hydroxyurea 330

Lymphoma 330.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-334) and index.

ISBN:

0632033991

OCLC:

50782769