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Reference values of serum phenols between 0.3 and 0.7 mmol/L in dogs respectively between 0.25 and 0.37 mmol/L in horses are determined. In dogs increased phenol values were found frequently in hepatopathy. Furthermore elevations, particularly in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, were obtained; especially in hemorrhagic enteritis of dogs, associated with parvovirosis, and in mechanical ileus of the small intestine and the large intestine respectively in horses. In renal and endocrine diseases increased phenol values were seldom obtained.
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Dog Diseases/blood , Dogs/blood , Horse Diseases/blood , Horses/blood , Phenols/blood , Animals , Female , Male , Reference ValuesABSTRACT
Colitis cystica profunda in dogs has been diagnosed in one case only. The two own cases were characterized by repeated, partly bloody diarrhea, vomitus, and painful defecation. The disease was diagnosed by clinical examination and colonoscopy with the ensuing histological examination of biopsy specimens. The disease could be managed by administration of a diet, sulfasalazine and corticosteroids.
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Colitis/veterinary , Dog Diseases/diagnosis , Adrenal Cortex Hormones/therapeutic use , Animals , Biopsy/veterinary , Colitis/diagnosis , Colitis/pathology , Colitis/therapy , Colon/pathology , Colonoscopy/veterinary , Dog Diseases/pathology , Dog Diseases/therapy , Dogs , Male , Sulfasalazine/therapeutic useABSTRACT
The aetiology of chronic idiopathic intestinal inflammation is unknown. It is characterized by a diffuse infiltration with inflammatory cells into the intestinal mucosa and sometimes submucosa. Cats with chronic intermittent vomiting and diarrhoea, later on accompanied by anorexia and weight loss, are presented. Definitive diagnosis can be obtained by intestinal biopsy only. An immune pathogenesis is suspected, which is supported by the fact, that chronic inflammatory bowel disease responds to steroid therapy.
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Cat Diseases/pathology , Inflammatory Bowel Diseases/veterinary , Animals , Cat Diseases/diagnosis , Cat Diseases/therapy , Cats , Chronic Disease , Inflammatory Bowel Diseases/diagnosis , Inflammatory Bowel Diseases/pathology , Inflammatory Bowel Diseases/therapy , Intestinal Mucosa/pathology , Retrospective Studies , Steroids/therapeutic useABSTRACT
The white blood picture was examined in 135 dogs with parvovirus disease during the course of the illness. 91 dogs survived, 44 died. The surviving dogs showed higher mean total leucocyte, neutrophil, and eosinophil counts whereas the mean lymphocyte, neutrophil, and monocyte counts on the first day of the disease were lower in those dogs which survived than in those ones which died later. Increasing lymphocyte and monocyte counts appear to be a favourable prognostic sign. The older the dogs, which fell ill, were, the more favourable the prognosis turned out.
