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  Cardiothoracic Surgery Team Progress

  Dan Brockman, who leads the team and is Professor of Small Animal Surgery, outlines developments in the Cardiothoracic Surgery Service, which are enabling more dogs to be treated. The RVC’s service, which was established in 2005, is the only place …
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  Medicine Nursing at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals

  The RVC team includes some of the most skilled RVNs in the UK, many of whom have advanced qualifications in their fields. They have expertise in caring for some of the most challenging cases seen in veterinary practice.
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  Using Flow Cytometry for Companion Animal Cancer Research

  Dirk Werling, Professor of Molecular Immunology Over the last two years, RVC’s research facilities have been revamped to stay at the cutting edge of changes in veterinary medicine. One of these changes is the greater impact of basic research and …
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  Being an RVC Anatomic Pathology Resident

  At this end of his residency and before heading back to the USA, Kevin O’Brien spoke to Clinical Connections about his experience at the RVC.      What made you choose anatomic pathology as a specialty and what made you choose the RVC for your …
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  Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping – Leading the Way in Veterinary Oncology

  Sentinel lymph node (SLN) mapping is a diagnostic tool commonplace in human oncology and developing in veterinary oncology. It increases the accuracy of detection of metastatic disease whilst minimising patient morbidity.
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  A Week in the Cardiology Service

  With a recently expanded team, the RVC Cardiology Service is working harder to diagnose and treat cardiac diseases, ranging from complex congenital heart disease and acquired cardiomyopathies.
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  Pomeranian With IMTP Saved by Blood Donations

  Sarah Tayler, Lecturer in Small Animal Internal Medicine   When three-year-old Pomeranian Nyla came into season it lasted longer than usual. She became lethargic, lost her appetite, blotches appeared on her abdomen and she had ongoing bloody vulval …
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  The Most Common Cases Referred to Internal Medicine

  We are focusing, over a number of articles, on the most common cases referred to the RVC team and the capacities that enable us to offer effective treatments to patients and a good service to referrers.
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  Cardiac surgery breakthrough – A world first at the RVC

  Open heart surgery to treat a stenotic tricuspid valve has been carried out at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). It is the first reported case of such a procedure being successfully performed on a dog.
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  Diagnostic Imaging of Portosystemic Shunts

  Mark Plested, Staff Clinician in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging, and Randi Drees, Associate Professor in Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging The imaging of portosystemic shunts is a hot topic in the world of veterinary radiology, with a large number of …