My Favourite Papers- July

Don’t you sometimes feel overwhelmed by the number of papers published every week? Once a month I choose a few feline medicine publications that I find particularly interesting or controversial:

ANESTHESIA & ANALGESIA

Monteiro and Steagall. Chronic pain in cats: Recent advances in clinical assessment J Feline Med Surg 2019 Jul; 21(7):601-614

BEHAVIOUR

Plitman L et al. Motivation of Owners to Purchase Pedigree Cats, with Specific Focus on the Acquisition of Brachycephalic Cats Animals 2019, 9(7), 394

CARDIOLOGY

Loughran K et al. The use of focused cardiac ultrasound to screen for occult heart disease in asymptomatic cats J Vet Intern Med 2019 Jul 17

DERMATOLOGY

Noli C et al. Effect of dietary supplementation with ultramicronized palmitoylethanolamide in maintaining remission in cats with nonflea hypersensitivity dermatitis: a double‐blind, multicentre, randomized,placebo‐controlled study Vet Dermatology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of the ESVD and ACVD 2019 July, 0,1–9.

ECC

Nystrom M et al. Assessment of hydromorphone and dexmedetomidine for emesis induction in cats J Vet Emerg Crit Care (San Antonio). 2019 Jul; 29 (4):360-365

GIT

Hyperplastic and fibrosing gastropathy resembling Ménétrier disease in a cat JFMS Open Rep 2019Jul-Dec; 5(2)

Barker E et al. Ultrasonographic and histopathological features in 8 cats with fibrotic small intestinal stricture Veterinary Radiology & Ultrasound2019, 60 (4): 423-431

Nathanson O. Esophagostomy tube complications in dogs and cats: Retrospective review of 225 cases J Vet Intern Med 2019;1–6

HAEMATOLOGY

Winzelberg S, Hohenhaus A. Feline non-regenerative anemia:Diagnostic and treatment recommendations Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery 2019, 21 (7): 615-631

IMAGING

Griffin S. Feline abdominal ultrasonography: What’s normal?What’s abnormal? Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery (2019) 21, 645–654

NEUROLOGY

Mella S et al. Clinical reasoning in feline spinal disease:which combination of clinical information is useful? JFMS 2019 1-10

URINARY TRACT

Cooper E et al. Incidence of bacteriuria at presentation and resulting from urinary catheterization in feline urethral obstruction J Vet Emerg Crit Care. 2019;1–6.