Hepatocutaneous syndrome in Shih Tzus: 31 cases (1996-2014).

Objective: To characterize findings in Shih Tzus with progressive superficial necrolytic dermatitis and degenerative vacuolar hepatopathy consistent with hepatocutaneous syndrome.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Animals: 31 Shih Tzus.

Male vulnerability to reading disability is not likely to be a myth: a call for new data.

Whether boys are more vulnerable than girls to reading disabilities (RD) is controversial. We review studies that were designed to minimize ascertainment bias in the selection of individuals with RD. These include population-based studies that identified children with RD by objective, unbiased methods and studies that examined the gender ratios among the affected relatives of those diagnosed with RD.

Serum total thyroxine, total triiodothyronine, free thyroxine, and thyrotropin concentrations in dogs with nonthyroidal disease.

Objective: To determine whether nonthyroidal disease of various causes and severity is associated with abnormalities in baseline serum concentrations of total thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), free T4, or thyrotropin (thyroid-stimulating hormone [TSH]) in dogs believed to be euthyroid.

Design: Case-control study.

Animals: 223 dogs with confirmed nonthyroidal diseases and presumptive normal thyroid function, and 150 clinically normal dogs.

Prothrombin, activated partial thromboplastin, and proteins induced by vitamin K absence or antagonists clotting times in 20 hyperthyroid cats before and after methimazole treatment.

The effect of daily doses of 5-15 mg of methimazole on the platelet count, prothrombin time (PT), activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT), and proteins induced by vitamin K absence or antagonists (PIVKA) clotting time in 20 hyperthyroid cats was determined. No significant (P > .05) difference was found in median platelet count.

Serum total thyroxine, total triiodothyronine, free thyroxine, and thyrotropin concentrations in epileptic dogs treated with anticonvulsants.

Objective: To determine whether administration of phenobarbital, potassium bromide, or both drugs concurrently was associated with abnormalities in baseline serum total thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), free T4, or thyrotropin (thyroid-stimulating hormone; TSH) concentrations in epileptic dogs.

Design: Prospective case series.

Animals: 78 dogs with seizure disorders that did not have any evidence of a thyroid disorder (55 treated with phenobarbital alone, 15 treated with phenobarbital and bromide, and 8 treated with bromide alone) and 150 clinically normal dogs that were not receiving any medication.

Small bowel hemorrhage: angiographic localization and intervention.

Occult bleeding in the small bowel was localized with mesenteric angiography in 64 patients. Two groups of patients were identified. In the first group comprising 38 patients, bleeding sites were localized by the demonstration of contrast extravasation.

Intraspinal neurenteric cyst containing gastric mucosa: CT and MRI findings.

A case of neurenteric intraspinal cyst with vertebral anomalies is reported; the cyst contained gastric mucosa. MRI and CT provided useful information.

Effect of injury and sepsis on high-energy phosphates in muscle and red cells.

Changes in muscle high-energy phosphates in varying degrees of resting hypermetabolism were studied. Eleven patients were investigated before and 4 days after total hip replacement. The postoperative results were compared with those seen in major traumas and sepsis.

Muscle and plasma amino acids following injury. Influence of intercurrent infection.

The present study was undertaken to determine intracellular amino acid patterns in patients with multiple trauma, whether or not complicated by sepsis and during convalescence. A percutaneous muscle biopsy was performed three to four days following major accidental injury in ten patients and analyzed for muscle free amino acids. Venous blood was drawn at the time of the biopsy and analyzed for plasma free amino acids.