Respiratory Disease

Approach to diagnosis and management

Date: Thursday 29 January 2009

Speaker: Craig Devine

Venue: Day meeting at the Holiday Inn, Gatwick

Sponors: Intervet and Meriel

Animal’s airways are continuously exposed to a number of potentially noxious airborne agents and their respiratory tracts have adapted to this onslaught by developing a range of mechanical and immunological defence mechanisms. Failure of these defences leads to invasion by pathogenic microbes whilst exaggerated or misdirected immunological responses can result in immunologically mediated disease.  This program of lectures will review some of the clinically significant aspects of these immunological mechanisms and then discuss how failure of these defences results in some of the more commonly seen nasal and bronchopulmonary diseases of dogs and cats. Recent advances in the diagnosis and management of these conditions will be presented using clinical case material for illustration. The aim will be to present a practical approach to the diagnosis and management of these disorders whilst including a little science for those who have a deeper interest in respiratory medicine.

Morning sessions:

Review of normal airway defences and approach to the respiratory patient

Diagnosis and management of common nasal disorders

• Feline infectious upper respiratory tract disease
• Neoplasia of the nasal cavity
• Nasopharyngeal polyps
• Fungal rhinitis
• Lymphocytic-plasmocytic rhinitis

Afternoon sessions:

Diagnosis and management of common broncho-pulmonary disorders

• Acute tracheobronchitis (“Kennel cough”)
• “Feline asthma”
• Bacterial bronchopneumonia
• Chronic bronchitis
• Eosinophillic pneumopathy (PIE)
• Parasitic lung disease
• Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Fees: BSAVA Members £160; non members £250

Details from Jackie Casey, telephone 01903 506229, email surreyandsussexregion@bsava.com.

Delegates need to book prior to this day meeting, please click here to download a registration form. Booking forms must be received prior to 26 January 2009, as final numbers must be confirmed with the Holiday Inn, Gatwick two working days in advance of the event for catering purposes.

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