Lewandowska, Anna Rudzki, Grzegorz Lewandowski, Tomasz Rudzki, Sławomir
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International journal of environmental research and public health
(1) Background: As the literature analysis shows, cancer patients experience a variety of different needs. Each patient reacts differently to the hardships of the illness. Assessment of needs allows providing more effective support, relevant to every person's individual experience, and is necessary for setting priorities for resource allocation, fo...
Murphy, N Rooney, B Bhattacharyya, T Triana-Chavez, O Krueger, A Haslam, SM O'Rourke, V Panczuk, M Tsang, J Bickford-Smith, J
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Chagas disease is considered the most important parasitic disease in Latin America. The protozoan agent, Trypanosoma cruzi, comprises six genetic lineages, TcI-TcVI. Genotyping to link lineage(s) to severity of cardiomyopathy and gastrointestinal pathology is impeded by the sequestration and replication of T. cruzi in host tissues. We describe sero...
Stock, Emmelie Vanderperren, Katrien Moeremans, Ilse de Rooster, Hilde Hermans, Katleen Saunders, Jimmy H
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Veterinary radiology & ultrasound : the official journal of the American College of Veterinary Radiology and the International Veterinary Radiology Association
A 1-year-old male French Lop rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) was presented with a sudden onset of hyporexia. Physical examination revealed cranial abdominal discomfort. Liver enzymes were elevated on serum biochemistry profile. Abdominal radiographs showed diffusely gas-dilated small intestinal loops. On abdominal ultrasound, a lobe in the right asp...
Van den Abbeele, Pieter Duysburgh, Cindy Rakebrandt, Maike Marzorati, Massimo
Published in
Journal of animal science
The outer cell wall of yeast is characterized by high levels of β-glucans and mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS), which have been linked with beneficial effects on intestinal health and immune status in dogs. In this study, a standardized in vitro simulation of the canine gastrointestinal tract (Simulator of the Canine Intestinal Microbial Ecosystem; SC...
Tal, Moran Weese, J. Scott Gomez, Diego E. Hesta, Myriam Steiner, Joerg M. Verbrugghe, Adronie
Published in
BMC Veterinary Research
BackgroundResearch in humans and mice suggests that obesity influences the abundance and diversity of gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota, and that an “obese microbiome” influences energy metabolism and fat storage in the host. Microbiota membership and composition have been previously assessed in healthy cats. However, research investigating the effe...
Boeykens, Fréderique Peelman, Luc Bhatti, Sofie Broeckx, Bart
Canine degenerative myelopathy (DM) is a late-onset, progressive, neurodegenerative disorder with a fatal outcome, occurring in a vast number of dog breeds. Most dogs are at least eight years of age when they begin to show clinical signs, starting with general proprioceptive ataxia in the hind limbs and upper motor neuron paraparesis, evolving to l...
De Vlam, Matthias Pil, Steven Schlake, Alexander De Rooster, Hilde
Vaginectomy is an infrequently performed invasive surgery to control vaginal disorders in bitches. Indications for vaginectomy include vaginal tumors (leiomyom a, fibroleiomyoma and leiomyosarcoma), polyps and vaginal prolapse. The surgical technique is a two-step procedure and consists of an extended laparotomy approach with caudal ovariohysterect...
Bertal, Mileva Vezzoni, Aldo Van der Vekens, Elke Polis, Ingeborgh Saunders, Jimmy Broeckx, Bart
Objective This study aimed to analyse the distribution of the laxity indices (LI) in a dog population, to compare the LI with the Federation Cynologique Internationale (FCI) grades and to search for differences of LI between breeds. Study Design The database was composed of all dogs presented to the University Hospital of the Faculty of Veterinary ...
Devriendt, Nausikaa Or, Matan Meyer, Evelyne Paepe, Dominique Vallarino, Nicolas Bhatti, Sofie De Rooster, Hilde
Background: Hyperammonemia is one of the contributing factors of hepatic encephalopathy (HE). Although blood ammonia concentrations are frequently measured in patients suspected of HE, systemic levels do not necessarily reflect the amount of ammonia in the central nervous system. Measuring ammonia in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) can help to understand...
Veraa, Stefanie Bergmann, Wilhelmina Wijnberg, Inge D Back, Willem Vernooij, Hans Nielen, Mirjam van den Belt, Antoon-Jan M
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Veterinary radiology & ultrasound : the official journal of the American College of Veterinary Radiology and the International Veterinary Radiology Association
Morphology of the equine cervical intervertebral disc is different from that in humans and small companion animals and published imaging data are scarcely available. The objectives of this exploratory, methods comparison study were (a) to describe MRI features of macroscopically nondegenerated and degenerated intervertebral discs (b) to test associ...
