Kenneth J. Drobatz

TL;DR: Preoperative plasma lactate concentration was a good predictor of gastric necrosis and outcome for dogs with GDV and preoperative measurement of plasma lactATE concentration may assist in determining prognosis of dogs withGDV.

TL;DR: The data demonstrate that widespread improvement of neuropathology in a large mammalian brain can be achieved using multiple injection sites during one operation and suggest that this could be an effective treatment for the central nervous system component of human lysosomal enzyme deficiencies.

TL;DR: There was no statistical correlation between development of a cardiac arrhythmia and outcome in dogs with GDV and there were no statistical differences in the age of dog, time between onset of clinical signs and admission, time from admission to surgery, or duration of anesthesia in the group of dogs that survived to those that died.

TL;DR: Endotoxin and activation of the cytokine cascade are integral to the pathophysiology of parvoviral enteritis and measures to limit endotoxemia and the systemic inflammatory response may improve survival.

TL;DR: The data indicate that cats with HCM have ongoing myocardial damage, which most likely explains the replacement fibrosis that is consistently identified in cats with moderate to severe HCM.