Clinical Veterinary Medicine Unit

Below are shown the main lines of research of the Section:

Cardiology

Acquired heart disease in dogs (chronic degenerative mitral valve disease and dilated cardiomyopathy): natural history, electrocardiography and echocardiography.
Evaluation of performances and markers of exercise-induced stress in horses
Viral myocarditis in dogs

Clinical Pathology

Application of flow cytometric methods in veterinary field (livestock, pets and laboratory animals)
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
Cytological approaches in veterinary oncology
Study of coagulation disorders in some animal species (dog and cow) by using the Thromboelastometry

Emergency and Critical Care

Study of changes in oncotic pressure in dogs and therapeutic effectiveness of colloidal solutions in different pathologies

Internal Medicine

Clinical and clinico-pathological characterization of dogs affected by protein-losing enteropathy
Comparison among different canine populations suffering from adverse reaction to food, antibiotic-responsive enteropathy and steroid-responsive enteropathy
Feline chronic enteropathies
Clinical and clinico-pathological features of dogs affected by deep systemic mycosis
Metabolic consequences of intermittent hypoxia in brachycephalic dogs
Development of diagnostic diagram for rapid field assessment of acidosis severity in diarrheic calves
Clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic approach to canine leishmaniosis

Neurology

Ultrasound

Ophtalmic echography in small animals eye diseases
Morphologic and dimensional aspects of normal and pathologic adrenal gland in the dog

Welfare and Behavioural Medicine

Staff of the Unit

Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie