Abstract This descriptive study aims to examine the behavior of dogs diagnosed with hypothyroidism and potential effect hormonal treatment. Eight client-owned clinical were evaluated using an adapted C-BARQ questionnaire, description, hematological analysis. Six dogs’ was monitored for four months after treatment initiation. The found that excitation, whining, urinating when left alone frequent...

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009, 17(Suppl 2):P13 doi:10.1186/1757-7241-17-S2-P13 Danish Society for Emergency Medicine – Research Symposium 2009 < ditor>Mikkel Brabrand, Peter Hallas and Kjetil G Ringda < ot >Publ c tion of this upplement was supp rted by Akuttjournal n Aren AS <...

Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a manifestation of clinical signs that may result from a variety of liver diseases. In small animals, HE is most commonly a result of portosystemic shunting. The pathogenesis is not completely understood, although it is likely multifactorial. Theories of pathogenesis include altered ammonia metabolism and glutamine and glutamate transmission, an increase in gamma-...

the examination of a patient. A very few minutes will enable the experienced to decide whether a candidate knows his clinical work or not. This book, which is on much the same lines as Legars' more ambitious work, is an epitome of a course of demonstrations on physical signs delivered to students, and it should not only be helpful to them but to junior teachers also. Some general physical signs...

The number of coloured illustrations in this edition has increased to the enhanced usefulness of the book. Its slimness is welcome, for the beauty of this book lies in the fact that it gives the surgeon the meat of the classics on diagnosis in easily assimilable form. One is tempted to describe the accessibility of the contents in terms appropriate to these days of quick lunch counters and air ...

Historical Aspects The reduction in pulse volume during inspiration was first described by Lomer in 1669 in constrictive pericarditis1. A similar finding was described by Floyer and later by William in 1850 in bronchial asthma1. Adolf Kussmaul (Freiberg, Germany) coined the term “pulsus paradoxus” in 1873 in three patients with constrictive pericarditis. The “paradox” was: (1) the discrepancy b...