BACKGROUND Gastric dilatation-volvulus (GDV) is a life-threatening condition of mammals, with increased risk in large breed dogs. The study of its etiological factors is difficult due to the variety of possible living conditions. The association between meteorological events and the occurrence of GDV has been postulated but remains unclear. This study introduces the binary time series approach ...

Gastric dilatation–volvulus (GDV) is a syndrome characterized by rapid accumulation of gas or food in the stomach, increased intragastric pressure and wall tension, and rotation of the stomach about its long axis. Gastric distention unleashes a series of potentially lethal pathophysiologic events, the most important of which are compression of the portal and caudal vena caval venous blood flow,...

A nested case-control study was conducted among 1634 dogs with complete diet information in a 5-year prospective study to determine diet-related risk factors for gastric dilatation-volvulus (GDV). Cases included 106 dogs that developed GDV; controls included 212 dogs without GDV that were frequency matched to cases by year of GDV onset. Proportionate energy consumed from major food types and fr...

Recent applications of the GDV Technique – Evoked Bioelectrography Responses of biological subjects – is under consideration. Overview of the results in the following areas are presented: examination of the bronchial patients of various course of disease; estimation of readiness for the competitive activity among elite athletes; Frontier Science Study; study of water and liquids. The data prese...

OBJECTIVE To explain the energetic physiologic basis for acupuncture electroconductance effects and for gas discharge visualization (GDV) assessment methods, using a quantum biophysical model of entropy and information flows. DESCRIPTION The main reservoir of free energy in biologic processes is electron-excited states of complex molecular systems. Communities of delocalized excited pi-electr...

Using dry dog food label information, the hypothesis was tested that the risk of gastric dilatation-volvulus (GDV) increases with an increasing number of soy and cereal ingredients and a decreasing number of animal-protein ingredients among the first four ingredients. A nested case-control study was conducted with 85 GDV cases and 194 controls consuming a single brand and variety of dry food. N...

Cardiac troponin I (cTnI) and T (cTnT) have a high sequence homology across phyla and are sensitive and specific markers of myocardial damage. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the Cardiac Reader, a human point-of-care system for the determination of cTnT and myoglobin, and the Abbott Axsym System for the determination of cTnI and creatine kinase isoenzyme MB (CK-MB) in healthy dogs and...

OBJECTIVE To identify non-dietary risk factors for gastric dilatation-volvulus (GDV) in large breed and giant breed dogs. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. ANIMALS 1,637 dogs > or = 6 months old of the following breeds: Akita, Bloodhound, Collie, Great Dane, Irish Setter, Irish Wolfhound, Newfoundland, Rottweiler, Saint Bernard, Standard Poodle, and Weimaraner. PROCEDURE Owners of dogs tha...

This work is aimed on development of a standard procedure for measurement of different environmental objects using the EPC/GDV method. During investigation several destabilizing factors influencing the results of EPC/GDV measurements were found. These factors were analyzed and ways of overcoming them have been formulated. We have developed standard recommendations and a procedure for conducting...

The need for automated identification of a disease makes the issue of medical biometrics very current in our society. Not all biometric tools available provide real-time feedback. We introduce gas discharge visualization (GDV) technique as one of the biometric tools that have the potential to identify deviations from the normal functional state at early stages and in real time. GDV is a nonintr...