Retrospective evaluation of the incidence of presumed feline urethral obstruction during a prepandemic year compared to a pandemic year.

Objective: To investigate the influence of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the incidence of urethral obstruction (UO) in male cats.

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: One veterinary university teaching hospital and 6 private practice veterinary specialty and emergency centers.

A retrospective evaluation of hops ingestion in 177 dogs (2005-2018).

Objective: To describe the clinical signs and outcomes observed after Humulus lupulus (hops) ingestion in dogs. A secondary objective was to note any trends in the number of hops-related phone calls made to an animal poison control center over a 13-year period.

Design: Retrospective study (2005-2018).

Evaluation of tissue oxygen saturation in naturally occurring canine shock patients.

Objective: To measure tissue oxygen saturation (StO ) in a population of dogs with naturally occurring shock and to evaluate the relationship of StO with an established veterinary severity scoring system (Acute Patient Physiologic and Laboratory Evaluation) and patient survival.

Design: Prospective observational study.

Setting: University teaching hospital.

Retrospective comparison of standard clotting tests and novel clot waveform parameters in dogs using the turbidimetric ACL-TOP CTS 300 coagulation analyzer.

Clot waveforms are generated by coagulation analyzers, such as the ACL-TOP, that utilize photo-optical turbidimetric methods to measure prothrombin time (PT) and activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT), which are standard clotting tests (SCTs). Additional quantitative clot waveform analysis (CWA) parameters include maximum velocity of the PT curve (PT1d), maximum acceleration of the aPTT curve (aPTT2d), and their change in optical density (ODdelta). We explored the potential for CWA to contribute unique information compared to SCTs and quantitative fibrinogen assay (QFA) in dogs with clinical indications for laboratory evaluation of coagulation.

Pneumatosis of the intestines, colon and liver in a young cat.

To describe a case of naturally occurring pneumatosis intestinalis, pneumatosis coli and emphysematous hepatitis in a cat. A 9-month-old, indoors-only, female spayed, domestic medium hair cat presented for vomiting, open-mouth breathing and acute collapse. The initial physical examination identified moderate to severe hypothermia [35°C (95°F)], obtunded mentation, weak femoral pulses, tachycardia (heart rate 240 beats per min), pale pink mucous membranes and significant splenomegaly on abdominal palpation.

A systematic review of human and veterinary applications of noninvasive tissue oxygen monitoring.

Objective: To describe the methodology for and utilization of tissue oxygen monitoring by near infrared spectroscopy, and to review the current literature on the use of this monitoring modality in human and veterinary settings.

Data Sources: Scientific reviews and original research found using the PubMed and CAB Abstract search engines with the following keywords: "tissue oxygen monitoring," "near-infrared tissue spectroscopy," and "tissue oxygen saturation (StO2 )."

Human Data Synthesis: Tissue oxygen monitors have been evaluated in a wide variety of human clinical applications including trauma and triage, surgery, sepsis, and septic shock, and early goal-directed therapy.

4-Methylpyrazole as a treatment in naturally occurring ethylene glycol intoxication in cats.

Objective: To describe the clinical experience and therapeutic use of fomepizole (4-methylpyrazole [4-MP]) in 3 cats with naturally occurring ethylene glycol (EG) toxicity.

Case Or Series Summary: All cats were documented to be EG positive by an ethylene glycol test kit. This report describes the dose of 4-MP used, available clinicopathological data, and clinical progression during hospitalization.

Potential risks, prognostic indicators, and diagnostic and treatment modalities affecting survival in dogs with presumptive aspiration pneumonia: 125 cases (2005-2008).

Objective: To evaluate a clinical population of dogs diagnosed with presumptive aspiration pneumonia (AP) and determine diagnostic and treatment modalities contributing to survival.

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: A university veterinary teaching hospital in an urban setting.