There are distinct groups of clinical signs that can be appreciated to occur, reflecting
important pathophysiologic mechanisms involved in liver disease. Cholestasis can be …

Hepatology (the study of the liver and the diseases that affect it) remains a particularly
frustrating area in small animal internal medicine because the liver is involved in hundreds …

Although laboratory evaluation of the liver is an important diagnostic tool for the detection of
hepatic dysfunction, it is important to remember that differentiation of primary and secondary …

DIAGNOSTIC WORK-UP IN LIVER DISEASE Evaluation of a patient for hepatic disease
cannot be made from clinical signs because no one sign is pathognomic for liver disease …

This issue reviews the most current knowledge on liver diseases in dogs and cats and is
aimed at the small animal practitioner. The headings of the chapters are: clinicopathological …

The liver is the major metabolic focus of the animal, and the dynamics of its synthetic,
excretory, and catabolic processes are such that its content, at any instant, of various lipids …

Many disease conditions of the rabbit can affect the liver, and a variety of clinical signs may
indicate a diagnosis of liver impairment, either as a primary or secondary condition …

The most common primary hepatic disease in dogs is chronic hepatitis. It is an etiologically
diverse group of conditions having inflammatory liver changes. Early identification and …