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VETERINARY INFORMATION AND REFERENCES

All the below are posted with the permission of the authors and the Editor of the Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine


ANESTHESIA, IMMOBILIZATION, & ANALGESIA
  1. IMMOBILIZATION OF FELIDS USING ORAL DETOMIDINE AND KETAMINE

  2. CARDIOPULMONARY AND ANESTHETIC EFFECTS OF MEDETOMIDINEKETAMINE- BUTORPHANOL AND ANTAGONISM WITH ATIPAMEZOLE IN SERVALS

  3. EVALUATION OF AN OSMOTIC PUMP FOR FENTANYL ADMINISTRATION IN CATS AS A MODEL FOR NONDOMESTIC FELIDS

  4. HYPERKALEMIA IN EXOTIC FELIDS ANESTHETIZED WITH AN ALPHA - 2 ADRENOCEPTOR AGONIST, KETAMINE, AND ISOFLURANE

  5. SELECTED CLINICAL, BIOCHEMICAL, AND ELECTROLYTE ALTERATIONS IN ANESTHETIZED CAPTIVE TIGERS (Panthera tigris) AND LIONS (Panther leo)


HEPATIC AND RENAL DISEASE
  1. THE EFFECTS OF A PROBIOTIC ON BLOOD UREA NITROGEN AND CREATININE CONCENTRATIONS IN LARGE FELIDS

  2. RENAL LESIONS OF NONDOMESTIC FELIDS

  3. HEPATIC LESIONS IN 90 CAPTIVE NONDOMESTIC FELIDS PRESENTED FOR AUTOPSY


INFECTIOUS DISEASES
  1. FECAL SHEDDING OF SALMONELLA IN EXOTIC FELIDS

  2. POSITIVE EFFECTS OF DIET CHANGE ON SHEDDING OF SALMONELLA SPP. IN THE FECES OF CAPTIVE FELIDS

  3. ZOONOSES OF PROCYONIDS AND NON-DOMESTIC FELIDS

  4. PYOMETRA IN CAPTIVE LARGE FELIDS: A REVIEW OF ELEVEN CASES

  5. ATTEMPTED TREATMENT OF TIGERS (PANTHERA TIGRIS) INFECTED WITH MICROSPORUM CANIS

  6. BLASTOMYCOSIS IN NONDOMESTIC FELIDS

  7. CEFOVECIN (CONVENIA) FOR THE TREATMENT OF SEPTIC PERITONITIS IN A FEMALE LION (PANTHERA LEO)

  8. RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF PYOMETRA IN THIRTY-EIGHT CAPTIVE LARGE FELIDS


NEOPLASIA
  1. NEOPLASIA IN FELIDS AT THE KNOXVILLE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, 1979-2003

  2. OLIGODENDROGLIOMA IN AN AFRICAN LION (PANTHERA LEO)

  3. MESOTHELIOMA IN TWO NONDOMESTIC FELIDS: NORTH AMERICAN COUGAR (Felis concolor) AND CHEETAH (Acinonyx jubatus)

  4. DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF A DERMAL MALIGNANT MELANOMA IN AN AFRICAN LION (PANTHERA LEO)

  5. SPONTANEOUS PROLIFERATIVE AND NEOPLASTIC LESIONS IN THYROID AND PARATHYROID GLANDS OF NON-DOMESTIC FELIDS

  6. CLINICOPATHOLOGIC FEATURES OF MAMMARY MASSES IN CAPTIVE LIONS (Panthera leo)

  7. HYPERGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA AND MYELOMA IN FIVE TIGERS (PANTHERA TIGRIS): CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL FINDINGS


NON-INFECTIOUS DISEASES
  1. ADULT-ONSET HYPOTHYROIDISM IN A LYNX (Lynx canadensis)

  2. ORAL EOSINOPHILIC GRANULOMAS IN TIGERS (PANTHERA TIGRIS); A COLLECTION OF 16 CASES

  3. EPISODIC SYNCOPE CAUSED BY VENTRICULAR FLUTTER IN A TIGER (PANTHERA TIGRIS)

  4. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI) OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM IN LARGE FELIDS

  5. ISIS NORMAL VALUES FOR TIGERS (Panthera tigris): ARE THEY BETTER THAN DOMESTIC CAT REFERENCE INTERVALS?

  6. COMPATIBILITY OF DOMESTIC CAT BLOOD WITH NON-DOMESTIC CAT BLOOD



OSTEOARTHRITIS
  1. DEGENERATIVE SPINAL DISEASE IN LARGE FELIDS

  2. USE OF ANALGESICS IN EXOTIC FELIDS

  3. SPINAL OSTEOARTHRITIS IN MALE LIONS (Panthera leo)


SURGERY
  1. DIAGNOSIS AND SURGICAL TREATMENT OF A CHIARI I?LIKE MALFORMATION IN AN AFRICAN LION (PANTHERA LEO)

  2. LAPAROSCOPIC-ASSISTED OVARIECTOMY OF TIGERS (PANTHERA TIGRIS) WITH THE USE OF THE LIGASURE DEVICE

  3. HIATAL HERNIA AND DIAPHRAGMATIC EVENTRATION IN A LEOPARD (PANTHERA PARDUS)