Prevalence and clinical relevance of cholelithiasis in cats: A multicenter retrospective study of 98 cases.

Background: Cholelithiasis is an uncommon and mainly incidental finding in dogs; current literature on this topic is scarce in cats.

Hypothesis: Report prevalence, clinical presentation, management, and outcome of cholelithiasis in cats.

Animals: Ninety-eight cats with cholelithiasis.

Use of feeding tubes in 112 cats in an internal medicine referral service (2015-2020).

Objectives: The aims of this study were to describe diseases, complications and outcomes associated with the use of feeding tubes in a population of sick cats with appetite disturbance managed at an internal medicine referral service.

Methods: Clinicopathological data from cats receiving nasoenteral (NE) or oesophagostomy (O) tubes were studied. Cats were categorised according to their underlying disease and divided into subgroups (NE or O tube).

Imported episodic rabies increases patient demand for and physician delivery of antirabies prophylaxis.

Background: Imported cases threaten rabies reemergence in rabies-free areas. During 2000-2005, five dog and one human rabies cases were imported into France, a rabies-free country since 2001. The Summer 2004 event led to unprecedented media warnings by the French Public Health Director.