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  Kitten’s Liver Shunt Surgery Success

  Grace Thomas (Resident in Small Animal Surgery) and Lynda Rutherford (Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery) discuss the case of a kitten who had never known health or vitality until he was treated at the RVC. Milo was presented to the RVC’s …
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  Recurrent Sublumbar Abscesses Due to Occult Grass Seed

  Grace Thomas (Resident in Small Animal Surgery)     Norman Norman, a three-year-old cocker spaniel, presented to our Emergency Referrals Service last October, following a two-day history of lethargy, inappetence, pyrexia and a vomiting episode. …
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  Harmonic Scalpel’s Help to Horses

  Andy Fiske-Jackson, Deputy Head of RVC Equine and Associate Professor in Equine Surgery     RVC Equine has a new harmonic scalpel, which has been helping a range of referred equine patients, including several horses with melanomas. The technology …
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  Lung Lobectomy and Adjuvant Treatment of Carcinoma in Dogs

  Matteo Rossanese, Senior Lecturer in Small Animal Surgery   We reviewed the medical records of 89 dogs that underwent lung lobectomy for primary lung carcinoma between 2005 and 2022 across four European veterinary institutions. The study was …
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  New Home for the Blood Donor Programme

  Charlotte Russo, Head Transfusion Medicine RVN The RVC Blood Donor Programme, which was based within the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA), has grown significantly since being established, 20 years ago. This expansion has included a …
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  Cardiothoracic Surgery Team Progress

  Dan Brockman, who leads the team and is Professor of Small Animal Surgery, outlines developments in the Cardiothoracic Surgery Service, which are enabling more dogs to be treated. The RVC’s service, which was established in 2005, is the only place …
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  The RVC Blood Donor Programme Reaches 20-Year Milestone

  The RVC Blood Donor Programme is vital to the everyday functioning of the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals. The blood products it provides allow our specialist clinical teams to help hundreds of animals every year.
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  Resilient Rocco’s Road to Recovery

  A three-year-old longhaired male entire Chihuahua was mauled by a large dog, leading to severe injuries, including pelvic fractures, body wall rupture, testicular avulsion and acute kidney injury. He has bounced back and is enjoying his life, thanks to the specialist teams working together at RVC Small Animal Referrals
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  Equine Degloving Case

  Gannicus, an 11-year-old thoroughbred gelding, spent more than three months at the RVC Equine Referral Hospital earlier this year due to a degloving wound sustained by kicking through the side of a horsebox.
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  Adrenalectomy for Pituitary-Dependent Cushing’s

  Professor David Church, Deputy Principal at the Royal Veterinary College discussed the evolution of treatment for hyperadrenocorticism or Cushing’s syndrome