Respiratory Medicine

Parasites are major causes of respiratory tract disease in the dog and cat. Recent advances in therapy of these diseases have been made providing the practicing veterinarian with a more rational treatment modality.

While trauma by its very nature is a polysystemic disease, pulmonary complications present one of the most common, and life-threatening aspects of trauma triage.

Q: What is the standard of care for cats diagnosed with bronchitis or asthma?

Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health (ISPAH) is partnering with equine practitioners and UC Davis to improve the strategies veterinarians use to attack equine respiratory issues-identifying diseases before they spread in order to target specific pathogens with tailor-made vaccines and better biosecurity programs.

Canine Infectious Respiratory Diseases covers the causes, basic structure, transmission, clinical manifestations, treatment, and prevention of the most common viral and bacterial respiratory pathogens. (3 CE credits)

A 13-year-old 35.2-lb (16-kg) neutered male bichon frise was referred to the Veterinary Emergency Clinic in Toronto, Ontario, for evaluation of a caudal thoracic mass that had been identified radiographically by the referring veterinarian.

A BAL should not be performed on a horse with overt respiratory distress, tachycardia or pulmonary hypertension.

In this two-part video, Dr. Matthew Beal discusses minimally invasive tracheal stent placement to treat canine tracheal collapse.

In this two-part video, Dr. Matthew Beal discusses minimally invasive tracheal stent placement to treat canine tracheal collapse.

Nasal problems are a frequent reason for seeking veterinary care. Sneezing that produces a nasal discharge or frank hemorrhage must be evaluated to identify the underlying cause.

The chronic feline snuffler is a frustrating patient to treat.

Dyspneic cats are frequently presented to clinicians as emergencies. Because they are fragile and very easily stressed, it is a good idea to have a planned, rational and quickly implementable strategy for their management.

There is little argument among clinicians that feline upper respiratory disease is perhaps the most common respiratory disorder for which cats are presented.

Puppies are predisposed to acute infectious tracheobronchitis, which can progress to pneumonia, because they are often physiologically stressed by changes in ownership and new environments.

Respiratory changes occur frequently in small animal patients. It is important to recognize, however, that not all changes in respiration are caused by disease of the respiratory system.

Initial triage evaluation of the post-trauma patient should include a careful evaluation of respiratory function.

Transtracheal aspiration allows samples to be obtained from the airways for cytologic and microbiologic evaluation.

Ventilation is the ability of the chest wall and diaphragm to move an adequate volume of air into the chest.

Acute respiratory distress (ARD) is the sudden onset of rapid and/or labored respiratory.

Clinical signs related to the upper respiratory tract, in both dogs and cats, are among the most common presenting complaints encountered in small animal practice and, interestingly, are frequent reasons for referral to specialty practices and veterinary teaching hospitals.

Dogs and cats with partial or complete upper airway obstruction can present with varying degrees of dyspnea.

Rabbits with respiratory disease may present with a variety of clinical signs.

Upper airway obstruction is a rare syndrome in cats, but can be very severe and can cause life-threatening clinical signs.

Inhalant delivery of aerosolized medication offers a number of theoretical benefits including an enormous absorptive surface area across a permeable membrane, a low enzyme environment that results in little drug degradation, avoidance of hepatic first-pass metabolism, and reproducible absorption kinetics.

Cough is a common reason for dogs to be presented for veterinary care, and tracheal collapse is a common cause of chronic cough in dogs.

Experimental studies conducted at Auburn University have shown that an acute respiratory crisis often diagnosed as asthma may occur during either Stage (Phase) 1 or 2 feline heartworm disease.

Upper respiratory infections (URI) are quite common in cats. Mortality due to common URI is very rare.

Bacterial pneumonia encompasses a wide spectrum of disease, from chronic to acute, unilobar or multilobar, and with clinical signs ranging from mild tachypnea or cough to rapidly progressive and fatal pulmonary infection.

Dyspnea is the sensation of "air hunger", a somewhat anthropomorphic term for respiratory distress.

Recent years have seen the emergence of previously undescribed respiratory infections in dogs and cats.