Considering endocrine disease with a skin condition

What is a key consideration about concurrent endocrine and dermatological disease? Christina Gentry, DVM, DACVM, assistant clinical professor at Texas A&M University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Biological Sciences in College Station, is co-presenting a lecture on “Navigating Concurrent Endocrine and Dermatological Disease” with Patty Lathan, VMD, MS, DACVIM (SAIM), a professor of small animal internal medicine at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, at the 2026 Veterinary Meeting & Expo (VMX), hosted by the North American Veterinary Community, in Orlando, Florida, to address identification and management of these concurrent conditions. In a dvm360 interview, Gentry shared a key takeaway from the session, from a dermatologist’s perspective.

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The following is transcript of the interview portion shown in the video:

dvm360: What is a key consideration about concurrent endocrine and dermatological disease?

Christina Gentry, DVM, DACVM:From my dermatology standpoint, it's ‘don't take endocrine disease off your differential list as a cause of occurred pyoderma.’ We know that generally, dog SCS [specialty and critical care] and GP [general practitioners] and [dermatologists] practice for bacterial skin infections. It's almost like it's almost always going to be allergic skin disease. But there are some that are going to come with endocrine disease. And just to keep that in mind, when you have dogs that just come in for recurrent bacterial infections, that were asking historical questions about systemic signs and see whether or not they really do have itch before the skin signs occur.

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