JFMS clinical reviews: some of what we've covered already

Analgesia
Long-term pain in cats: How much do we know about this important welfare issue?
Sheilah Robertson and Duncan Lascelles
DJD-associated pain in cats: What can we do to promote patient comfort?
Duncan Lascelles and Sheilah Robertson

Bacteriology
Feline cryptococcosis: Impact of current research on clinical management
Sameer Trivedi, Richard Malik, Wieland Meyer and Jane Sykes

Cardiology
Feline myocardial disease: 1 Classification, pathophysiology and presentation
Luca Ferasin
Feline myocardial disease: 2 Diagnosis, prognosis and clinical management
Luca Ferasin

Dermatology
Mycobacterium microti infection in the cat: a case report, literature review and recent clinical experience
Silvia Rufenacht, Katja Bogli-Stuber, Thomas Bohmer, Valerie Bornand Jaunin, Danielle Gonin Jmaa, Danielle Gunn-Moore

Emergency medicine
Feline toxicological emergencies: When to suspect and what to do
Tobias Grave and Amanda Boag

Endocrinology
Feline acromegaly: An essential differential diagnosis for the difficult diabetic
Stijn Niessen
Feline hyperthyroidism: Potential relationship with iodine supplement requirements of commercial cat foods
Charlotte Edinboro, Catharine Scott-Montcrieff and Larry Glickman

Gastroenterology
Idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease in cats: Rational treatment selection
Lauren Trepanier
Acute vomiting in cats: Rational treatment selection
Lauren Trepanier
The inappetent hospitalised cat: Clinical approach to maximising nutritional support
Dan Chan
Congenital portosystemic shunts in cats: 1 Investigation, diagnosis and stabilisation
Michael Tivers and Victoria Lipscomb
Congenital portosystemic shunts in cats: 2 Surgical management and prognosis
Michael Tivers and Victoria Lipscomb

Geriatric medicine
Weight loss in the elderly cat: Appetite is fine, and everything looks normal ...
Sarah Caney
Cognitive dysfunction in cats: A syndrome we used to dismiss as ‘old age’
Gary Landsberg, Sagi Denenberg and Joseph Araujo

Haematology
Haemotropic mycoplasmas: What’s their real significance in cats?
Severine Tasker
Feline systemic hypertension: Classification and pathogenesis
Rosanne Jepson
Feline systemic hypertension: Diagnosis and management
Rebecca Stepien
Feline blood transfusions: A pinker shade of pale
Dominic Barfield and Sophie Adamantos

Immunology
Food allergy in the cat: A diagnosis by elimination
Jacqueline Bryan and Linda Frank

Neurology
Neurological examination of the cat: How to get started
Laurent Garosi
The wobbly cat: Diagnostic and therapeutic approach to generalised ataxia
Jacques Penderis
The paralyzed cat: Neuroanatomic diagnosis and specific spinal cord diseases
Arianna Negrin, Scott Schatzberg and Simon Platt
The weak cat: Practical approach and common neurological differentials
Peter Nghiem, Simon Platt and Scott Schatzberg
The seizuring cat: Diagnostic work-up and therapy
Kerry Bailey and Curtis Dewey
The cat with neurological manifestations of systemic disease: Key conditions
impacting on the CNS
Marc Kent

Oncology
Treatment choices for oral cancer in cats: What is possible? What is reasonable?
Antony Moore
Early detection, aggressive therapy: Optimizing the management of feline
mammary masses
Fernanda Giménez, Silke Hecht, Linden Craig and Alfred Legendre

Ophthalmology
Feline uveitis: An ‘intraocular lymphadenopathy’
David Maggs
Aetiology of corneal ulcers: Assume FHV-1 unless proven otherwise
Claudia Hartley
Treatment of corneal ulcers: What are the medical options?
Claudia Hartley
Treatment of corneal ulcers: When is surgery indicated?
Claudia Hartley

Orthopaedics
Intensive, extensive, expensive: Management of distal limb shearing injuries
in cats
Sandra Corr

Practice Tips
Clinical effectiveness: What does it mean for practitioners - and cats?
Bradley Viner
Alternative-site blood glucose testing in cats: giving the ears a rest
Florian Zeugswetter, Laura Rebuzzi and Sonja Karlovits

Reproduction
Reproduction control in cats: New developments in non-surgical methods
Sandra Goericke-Pesch
Help stop teenage pregnancy! Early-age neutering in cats
Alison Joyce and David Yates

Respiratory
Snots and snuffles: Rational approach to chronic feline upper respiratory
syndrome
Margie Scherk
Pleural effusion in the cat: A practical approach to determining aetiology
Julia Beatty and Vanessa Barrs
Feline asthma: What’s new and where might clinical practice be heading?
Christine Venema and Coretta Patterson

Surgery
Surgical management of blocked cats: Which approach and when?
John Williams

Toxicology
Permethrin spot-on intoxication of cats: Literature review and survey of
veterinary practitioners in Australia
Richard Malik, Michael Ward, Aine Seavers, Anne Fawcett, Erin Bell, Merran Govendir and Stephen Page

Urology
Therapies for feline chronic kidney disease: What is the evidence?
Philip Roudebush, David Polzin, Sheri Ross, Todd Towell, Larry Adams and Dru Forrester
Proteinuria in cats: Prognostic marker or mediator?
Hattie Syme
Treatment options for hyperphosphataemia in feline CKD: What’s out there?
Aimee Kidder and Dennis Chew

Welfare
Brachycephalic feline noses: CT and anatomical study of the relationship
between head conformation and the nasolacrimal drainage system
Claudia Schlueter, Klaus Budras, Eberhard Ludewig, Elisabeth Mayrhofer, Horset Koenig, Alice Walter and Gerhard Oechtering
Environmental enrichment: Practical strategies for improving feline welfare
Sarah Ellis

Updated February 2011