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  Cardiac Research Clinic Hits a Recruitment Milestone

  This year, researchers at the RVC’s Mitral Valve Clinic (MVC) were excited to recruit their 500th patient. Whilst there are a number of diseases that affect the canine heart, degenerative mitral valve disease (DMVD) is by far the most common. The …
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  Rabbit Vaccination Concerns

  Nadene Stapleton, Veterinary Surgeon (Exotics) at the Royal Veterinary College's Beaumont Sainsbury Animal Hospital discusses the problem of animals not being vaccinated, incuding pet rabbits, which are at risk of a fatal infectious disease.
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  Improved Monitoring of Anaesthetised Patients

  A new anaesthesia monitor at the RVC enables patients to be safely monitored at all times, including during CT scans when staff are not able to be present in the CT room.
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  Keeping One Step Ahead Through Advanced RVN Education

  The RVC recently celebrated the tenth intake of students to the Graduate Diploma in Professional and Clinical Veterinary Nursing. Since its inception, 132 Registered Veterinary Nurses have completed this unique distance learning course. It is designed to enhance RVNs’ knowledge bases, skills and motivation.
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  Advancing Liver Tumour Treatment

  RVC Small Animal Referrals is now offering transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE) for dogs with non-resectable liver tumours. It is a procedure performed only in a small number of veterinary services in the world.      Surgical resection is …
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  Primary Care and Shelter Medicine Postgraduate Opportunity

  The RVC has created a new course – the first of its kind in the UK – for veterinary surgeons with particular interests in primary care and shelter medicine. The Postgraduate Diploma in Veterinary Primary and Accessible Care and Education Internship ( …
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  Brain Bank Benefits Beyond the RVC

  The RVC has established a Companion Animal Brain Bank (CABB), with the objective of collecting and storing samples of brain tissue and other biological specimens for research and educational purposes.
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  Donkeys are Not Little Horses!

  Michael Hewetson, Royal Veterinary Colllege Senior Lecturer in Equine Medicine, relates the case of a donkey with colic requiring a transdisciplinary approach
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  Exciting Advances in the Treatment of Recurrent Laryngeal Neuropathy

  A cervical nerve transplantation technique developed by Justin Perkins, Lecturer in Equine Surgery at the RVC, has shown promising results as a method of reinnervation of the larynx for horses with recurrent laryngeal neuropathy
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  “One Pathology” For Clinicians and Researchers: All Species Are Equally Important

  Lecturer in Comparative Pathology Dr Alejandro Suarez Bonnet, an RCVS and American Specialist in Veterinary Pathology, talks about his expertise in histopathological diagnosis of domestic, wildlife and laboratory animals, which supports the service …