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  Helping Referred Patients with a New Fluoroscopy Unit

  RVC Small Animal Referrals has upgraded its fluoroscopy unit, which offers benefits for referred patients and their owners, research and veterinary education. Fluoroscopy is a specialist diagnostic imaging modality, enabling capture of real-time moving pictures of inside of the body.
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  Clinical Forum: Managing Patients with Portosystemic Shunts

  A number of clinical studies recently performed at the RVC have been published, but the evidence base for the management of animals with a congenital portosystemic shunt (CPSS), particularly cats, remains weak (M. Tivers & Lipscomb, 2011a, 2011b; M. …
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  RVC’s Epilepsy Journey

  Rowena Packer, Lecturer in Companion Animal Behaviour and Welfare Science and BBSRC Research Fellow, reflects on the contributions of RVC research to the care of pets with epilepsy, including several important milestones, and looks to the future. …
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  Breakthrough in treatment of Cutaneous and Renal Glomerular Vasculopathy

  Emergency and Critical Care and Internal Medicine specialists at RVC Small Animal Referrals have made a ground-breaking discovery in the treatment of cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy (CRGV).
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  Concurrent Chronic Kidney Disease and Hyperthyroidism

  The RVC’s small animal Internal Medicine Service has considerable experience managing chronic kidney disease and hyperthyroidism, including cases where they occur concurrently.
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  Cat Bounces Back After Brain Surgery

  A cat that had severe neurological deficits as a result of a large 
intracranial meningioma made a full recovery after the tumour was removed by RVC surgeons.
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  A new era for feline transfusion medicine

  The RVC has pioneered a new blood collection system for cats which minimises the risk of bacterial contamination of the blood product.
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  30 Years of Progress at the QMHA

  The Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA) has come a long way since being established 30 years ago.
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  Improving Lives of Older Cats – Geriatric Cat Clinic

  In 1992, the RVC’s Geriatric Cat Clinic (GCC) was established with the aim of researching the common conditions of older cats and to help with the care and medical management of the cats that attend the clinic. Since then, more than 4,000 cats have come to the research clinic.
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  An Update on the RVC LifeTIME Epilepsy Clinical Trial

  Epilepsy is the most common chronic neurological brain disease encountered in first opinion practice for pet dogs. Diet is increasingly recognised as having an impact upon the seizure activity and behaviour in dogs with epilepsy. Our LifeTIME (Long- …