Clinical Veterinary Medicine Unit
Description of Research Activity
Below are shown the main lines of research of the Section:
Cardiology
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Acquired heart disease in dogs (chronic degenerative mitral valve disease and dilated cardiomyopathy): natural history, electrocardiography and echocardiography.
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Evaluation of performances and markers of exercise-induced stress in horses
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Viral myocarditis in dogs
Clinical Pathology
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Application of flow cytometric methods in veterinary field (livestock, pets and laboratory animals)
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Hematopoietic neoplasms: morphologic, molecular and flow cytometric characterization. Cytological classification, PARR and immunophenotype, proliferative activity, DNA content /ploidy and apoptosis are studied in leukemias and lymphomas in order to evaluate their usefulness in diagnosis, staging and prognosis
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Cytological approaches in veterinary oncology
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Study of coagulation disorders in some animal species (dog and cow) by using the Thromboelastometry
Emergency and Critical Care
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Study of changes in oncotic pressure in dogs and therapeutic effectiveness of colloidal solutions in different pathologies
Internal Medicine
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Clinical and clinico-pathological characterization of dogs affected by protein-losing enteropathy
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Comparison among different canine populations suffering from adverse reaction to food, antibiotic-responsive enteropathy and steroid-responsive enteropathy
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Feline chronic enteropathies
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Clinical and clinico-pathological features of dogs affected by deep systemic mycosis
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Metabolic consequences of intermittent hypoxia in brachycephalic dogs
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Development of diagnostic diagram for rapid field assessment of acidosis severity in diarrheic calves
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Clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic approach to canine leishmaniosis
Neurology
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Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy in Bovine
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Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy in Small Ruminants
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Bovine Cerebrospinal fluid storage technic
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Bovine Seizures disorders
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Otitis Media-Interna in calves
Ultrasound
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Ophtalmic echography in small animals eye diseases
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Morphologic and dimensional aspects of normal and pathologic adrenal gland in the dog
Welfare and Behavioural Medicine
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Assessment of welfare in cows housed in compost-bedded pack
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Clinical pharmacologic correlation in aggressive dogs treated with fluoxetine
Staff of the Unit
Alberto TARDUCCI |
Full Professor |
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Claudio BELLINO |
Associate Professor |
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Antonio D'ANGELO |
Associate Professor |
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Fulvio RIONDATO |
Associate Professor |
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Renato ZANATTA |
Associate Professor |
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Antonio BORRELLI |
Assistant Professor |
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Paola GIANELLA |
Assistant Professor |
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Barbara MINISCALCO |
Assistant Professor |
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Michela BULLONE |
Assistant Professor |