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The Jaundiced Cat - liver disease (inflammatory disease and hepatic lipidosis) including feline triaditis

Thu, 27 February, 2025 06:00 pm - 09:00 pm (Your Local Time Zone)

Species

Small Animal

Contact Hours

3 Hours - RACE Approval Pending

Early Booking Deadline

Sat, 13 July, 2024

Registration Deadline

Thu, 01 August, 2024

Language

English

Discipline

Diagnostic Imaging

Internal Medicine – Endocrinology, Haematology, Infectious Diseases, Parasitology & Oncology

Pathology - Clinical & Gross

Toxicology & Pharmacology

Industry Partners

Global

Veterinary Partners

Global

Time: London 6PM / Paris 7PM / New York 1PM / Sydney 5:00AM (+1)
                                                  

Panelists:

William Bayton   BVMedSci (Hons), BVMBVS (Hons), MRCVS, DECVIM-CA - Dick White Referrals, UK
Petra Cerná   PhD, DACVIM (SAIM), MANZCVS (Medicine of Cats), CertAVP (SAM-F), MRCVS, AFHEA, AdvCertFB - Colorado State University, USA
Dominique Penninck   DVM, PhD, DACVR, DECVDI - Tufts University, USA                                                  

Moderator:

Nick Bexfield   BVetMed, PhD, DSAM, DECVIM-CA, PGDipMEdSci, PGCHE, FHEA, MRCVS - Queen's Veterinary School Hospital, University of Cambridge, UK 

 

PANEL DISCUSSION DESCRIPTION

Liver disease is common in cats, but it can be a challenge to diagnose. Clinical signs are usually non-specific, and laboratory testing may identify few abnormalities. However, early diagnosis is critical to ensure that appropriate management strategies are employed. 

Inflammatory liver diseases are common in cats, and include neutrophilic cholangitis and cholecystitis, lymphocytic cholangitis and, in some countries, chronic cholangitis associated with flukes. Hepatic lipidosis is also a very common feline liver disease in certain geographical regions, and chronic storage hepatopathies are occasionally seen. Some cats present with concurrent pancreatic and small intestinal disease, which is commonly referred to as ‘feline triaditis’. Diagnosis of these conditions involves clinical pathology, diagnostic imaging, and ultimately sampling and analysis of liver tissue and/or bile. Ultrasonography is commonly used to detect key features of hepatobiliary disorders, and may aid in identifying biliary tree anatomical variation that can predispose to biliary diseases. Ultrasonography can also be used to guide sample collection, but a number of other techniques exist. Pre-sampling procedures are essential to reduce the associated risk. 

Join us for this exciting panel discussion where world-leading experts will come together to discuss these sometimes-complex cases. We will talk about the expected clinical signs, signalment and history, as well as clues to help in the specific diagnosis. Aspects of clinical pathology, imaging and tips and tricks of biopsy techniques and deciphering the histopathological report will be debated. We will cover the latest and tried-and-tested treatments and nutritional management of acute and chronic cases. The factors affecting prognosis will be addressed. We will welcome comments and questions from attendees.

After graduating from Nottingham university in 2015, Will spent two years working in primary-care practice before focusing his career on internal medicine. He undertook a 1-year rotating internship, followed by a 3-year internal medicine residency program at Cambridge university. Will gained his status as a European Specialist in Veterinary Internal Medicine in April 2022, and since then has been working in a busy multi-disciplinary referral hospital on the outskirts of Cambridge. Will enjoys all areas of internal medicine, but has a particular interest for procedures including endoscopy, bone-marrow biopsies and placement of feeding tubes.

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Nick worked in primary care practice before undertaking a residency in small animal internal medicine at the University of Cambridge where he gained the RCVS and European Diplomas. He was a clinical academic at the University of Nottingham before returning to the University of Cambridge as Clinical Director of Small Animal Services. Nick is part of the senior management team responsible for running the Hospital, and also oversees the postgraduate clinical training programmes. His clinical and research interests are in canine and feline liver disease, about which he has published textbook chapters and articles. He has a Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Education and a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education. He was made a full Professor in 2022.

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Dr. Černá is an ACVIM diplomate in small animal internal medicine. She graduated from the University of Veterinary Sciences in the Czech Republic in 2018 where she also obtained her PhD in 2023. After completing two internship in the UK, she completed Small Animal Internal Medicine Residency at Colorado State University, USA in 2023. Dr. Černá was awarded the RCVS Certificate in Advanced Veterinary Practice in Feline Medicine and also gained the Membership of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists in the Medicine of Cats. She was also awarded the ISFM Advanced Certificate in Feline Behaviour with Distinction. Dr. Černá has particular interest in feline medicine and is currently doing a PhD degree at Colorado State University in Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) which is funded by the Center for Companion Animal Studies from generous donations from multiple sources including Merck Animal Health.

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A radiologist certified by veterinary boards on two continents, Dr.Dominique Penninck is a professor of diagnostic imaging at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine. Situated at the nexus between the Foster Hospital for Small Animals and the Hospital for Large Animals, the Cummings School's diagnostic imaging section comprises some of the most important diagnostic tools for veterinary cases: radiography (X-Rays), computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound and interventional radiology.

Dr. Penninck was born in Burundi, Africa, and grew up in Belgium. After attending the Universite Catholique du Louvain, Belgium's largest French-speaking university, she went on to earn her veterinary degree and, later, a PhD, at the University of Liege in Brussels. She is a diplomate of both the American College of Veterinary Radiology and the European College of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging, for which she served as president from 2006-2008. She is a member of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine and the Veterinary Ultrasound Society.

Prior to joining the Tufts faculty in 1989, Dr. Penninck served as a small animal practitioner in Belgium, an ultrasound consultant at the University of Montreal's veterinary school, undertook a radiology residency and later was a lecturer at the University of California at Davis.

Since 1996, Dr. Penninck has written chapters in eight textbooks on various radiological textbooks and served as the editor of the Atlas of Small Animal Ultrasonography (Blackwell, 2008). She is also a prolific publisher of scientific journal articles, and has been invited to speak at imaging conferences in Italy, the Netherlands, Canada, Spain, France, Belgium, Sweden and throughout the United States.

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