Small Animal Medicine and Metabolic Disorders: Self-Assessment Color Review

ISBN-13: 9781138035720 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 275 str.

Craig Ruaux

Opis

This new edition covers all aspects of diseases and disorders and affecting organs of the abdominal cavity and the endocrine/metabolic system in a case-based format. It brings together a wide variety of new cases, the majority of which are "classical internal medicine".

Spis treści

Cardiology. Diagnostic Testing. Effusions. Electrolytes and Acid/Base. Endocrine. Esophageal. Gastric Diseases. Hematology. Hepatobiliary. Immune Mediated. Infectious Diseases. Intestinal/Abdominal Emergencies. Large Intestine. Lower Urinary Tract. Miscellaneous Metabolic Disorders. Neurology. Oncology. Oral Cavity. Pancreas. Rectoanal. Renal Diseases. Reproductive. Respiratory. Small Instestinal.

O autorze

Dr Ruaux is a 1992 graduate of The University of Queensland, Australia. He spent five years in a variety of mixed and small animal practices in both Australia and the United Kingdom before returning to The University of Queensland to pursue a PhD investigating objective markers of severity in canine acute pancreatitis. Dr Ruaux joined the GI Laboratory in 1999 at Texas A&M University, immediately after completion of his PhD degree. While at the GI Laboratory Dr Ruaux was involved in the development, validation and subsequent clinical application of a variety of diagnostic tests, including the methylmalonic acid assay for cobalamin deficiency, serum amino acid analyses, and bile acid characterization by gas chromatography. Dr Ruaux worked in the GI Lab as a research scientist until 2005, when he left to take up a faculty position in the then newly formed small animal section of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Oregon State University, where he is now an Associate Professor of Small Animal Internal Medicine. Dr Ruaux is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in Small Animal Medicine.