{"title":"A SIMPLIFIED INTRAVENOUS GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TESTING WITH MINOR MODIFICATIONS IS CLINICALLY APPLICABLE FOR CLIENT-OWNED CATS","authors":"Yi-Ta Chen, B. Su","doi":"10.1142/S1682648517500123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S1682648517500123","url":null,"abstract":"Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) is the most common form of DM in cats and humans. The intravenous glucose tolerance test is the recommended method for evaluating glucose homeostasis in cats. However,...","PeriodicalId":22157,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Veterinary Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84152217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A severity scoring system for outcome prediction in cats with pancreatitis.","authors":"B. Su, Shu-yu Wang, Pin-Chen Liu","doi":"10.1142/S1682648517500056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S1682648517500056","url":null,"abstract":"In order to develop a clinically applicable severity scoring system in cats with pancreatitis, 41 cats diagnosed with pancreatitis and hospitalized between 2011 and 2013 with their complete medical history were selected for analysis. Clinical signs, physical examination findings, laboratory findings, diagnostic imaging results, complications and concurrent diseases were analyzed to evaluate potential prognostic factors and further establish the severity scoring system. The mortality of cats selected in this study due to pancreatitis was 48.8%. Abnormalities in hemoglobin, albumin, blood urea nitrogen, total bilirubin, phosphorous and blood pressure were significantly associated with disease severity and prognosis and were selected for constructing the system. The abnormal range for each variable was further partitioned into quartiles, which were recorded into categorical variables. The weighting factors were calculated from the odds ratios (OR) between each of the quartiles and the normal range category. The area under curve (AUC) of the six continuous variables system at presentation and after rehydration of the cats was 0.873 and 0.976, respectively. The scores of 41 cats after rehydration ranged from 7 to 36 points. The mean score was 19.7±8, the median 17 points and the mode 32 points. The optimal cut-off point for outcome prediction was 17.5 with a sensitivity of 95.2% and specificity of 95.5%. The mortality was 95% with a score≥18, whereas 4.8 % had a score≤17. The severity scoring system provides a reliable and clinically applicable method to predict disease severity in cats with pancreatitis.","PeriodicalId":22157,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Veterinary Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88203502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Case report: unilateral ectopic testis in the tunica albuginea concurs with epididymal hyperplasia in the atrophic testis in a dog.","authors":"Chun-Ming Lin, H. Eng, V. Pang, Fun-In Wang","doi":"10.1142/S1682648517720027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S1682648517720027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22157,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Veterinary Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73194177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Kuo, Chen-Hsuan Liu, C. Hsieh, Jia-Wei Jiang, A. Liao
{"title":"MOLECULAR SCREENING OF FOUR CANINE HEREDITARY DISEASES IN TAIWAN","authors":"R. Kuo, Chen-Hsuan Liu, C. Hsieh, Jia-Wei Jiang, A. Liao","doi":"10.1142/S1682648517500068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S1682648517500068","url":null,"abstract":"Animals that have inherited a mutant gene from their parents (father and/or mother) may acquire hereditary diseases. Most mutations are autosomal recessive. Usually, hereditary diseases go unnotice...","PeriodicalId":22157,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Veterinary Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72557254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Y. Tuan, H. Kuo, Ji‐Hang Yin, F. Chang, K. Tung, Wen-Fa Chang, Fang-Tse Chan, H. Chiou, J. Liao
{"title":"CASE REPORT: ANGIOSTRONGYLIASIS IN A PALLAS’S SQUIRREL (CALLOSCIURUS ERYTHRAEUS)","authors":"Y. Tuan, H. Kuo, Ji‐Hang Yin, F. Chang, K. Tung, Wen-Fa Chang, Fang-Tse Chan, H. Chiou, J. Liao","doi":"10.1142/S1682648517720040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S1682648517720040","url":null,"abstract":"This is a rare case of a wild squirrel that was diagnosed with angiostrongyliasis characterized by the presence of larvae-induced eosinophilic meningoencephalomyelitis. A wild, intact, male Pallas’...","PeriodicalId":22157,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Veterinary Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89102081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wen-Ta Li, Chun-Hao Chang, C. Jeng, V. Pang, Fun-In Wang
{"title":"A PENILE SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA WITH SYSTEMIC METASTASIS IN A THOROUGHBRED HORSE","authors":"Wen-Ta Li, Chun-Hao Chang, C. Jeng, V. Pang, Fun-In Wang","doi":"10.1142/S1682648517720015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S1682648517720015","url":null,"abstract":"A 22-year-old gelding Thoroughbred horse had been in poor physical condition with a prolapsed penis. On necropsy, numerous white nodules/plaques were found on the lungs, omentum, and multiple lymph nodes, as well as several ulcerations and cauliflower-like growths throughout the glans penis to the internal fold. Histologically, the white nodules/plaques were composed of similar neoplastic squamous cells, which were immunostained positive for cytokeratin (CK), CK 5/6, and P63. The cauliflower-like growths were diagnosed as squamous papilloma, inverted papilloma, and penile squamous cell carcinoma (PSCC). It is speculated that the lung metastasis and peritoneal carcinomatosis in this case are derived from the PSCC. The lesion tissues from the penis and omentum were characterized negative, by polymerase chain reaction, for Equus caballus papillomavirus 2 (EcPV2). This finding suggests that the penile lesions may have been irrelevant to the EcPV2, further implying that multiple pathogeneses exist for the development of an equine PSCC.","PeriodicalId":22157,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Veterinary Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91548479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hui-Ju Wang, Shih-Chieh Chang, Wei-Ming Lee, Kuan-Sheng Chen, Hsien-Chi Wang
{"title":"COMPARISON OF ONSITE INFILTRATION AND CONSTANT RATE INFUSION FOR POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA IN DOGS WITH MAMMARY TUMORS UNDERGOING BILATERAL RADICAL MASTECTOMY AND OVARIOHYSTERECTOMY","authors":"Hui-Ju Wang, Shih-Chieh Chang, Wei-Ming Lee, Kuan-Sheng Chen, Hsien-Chi Wang","doi":"10.1142/S1682648517500044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S1682648517500044","url":null,"abstract":"Analgesia of the wide surgical excision region in surgeries such as bilateral radical mastectomy plays an important role in postoperative care. Opioids are effective in alleviating pain; however, they are sometimes difficult to obtain in most local veterinary hospitals. The objective of this research was to compare the efficacies of (1) onsite infiltration analgesia with lidocaine and bupivacaine (group I, n=6) and intravenous injection with buprenorphine and (2) constant rate infusions (CRIs) of fentanyl and ketamine (group II, n=6) for postoperative analgesia after bilateral radical mastectomy and ovariohysterectomy in dogs with mammary tumors. The results showed that a combination of infiltration with lidocaine and bupivacaine and intravenous injection with buprenorphine was as effective as CRIs of fentanyl and ketamine. Infiltration analgesia with lidocaine and bupivacaine may be an option for analgesia in dogs undergoing bilateral mastectomy and ovariohysterectomy and may help reducing pure μ-opioid ...","PeriodicalId":22157,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Veterinary Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87404275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Phonvisay, J. Liou, Li-Ting Cheng, Yen-Ping Chen, Hsing-Chieh Wu, Chia-Hui Liu, Jai-Wei Lee, C. Chu
{"title":"SURVEY OF A RIEMERELLA ANATIPESTIFER OUTBREAK IN SOUTHERN TAIWAN DUCK FARMS","authors":"M. Phonvisay, J. Liou, Li-Ting Cheng, Yen-Ping Chen, Hsing-Chieh Wu, Chia-Hui Liu, Jai-Wei Lee, C. Chu","doi":"10.1142/S1682648516500013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S1682648516500013","url":null,"abstract":"A septicemic outbreak in southern Taiwan duck farms in 2014 resulted in high mortality of ducklings. Samples from oral or cloacal sites of affected Muscovy and Pekin ducks were collected and the identity of the field isolates was confirmed using Riemerella anatipestifer (RA) 16S rRNA and outer membrane protein A (OmpA)-specific primers in polymerase chain reactions (PCR), with 15 isolates found positive for both 16S rRNA and OmpA. Detection of both the 16S rRNA and OmpA genes could be a rapid PCR test for RA. Serotyping of the isolates using gel-diffusion precipitin test identified serotypes 1, 4, 6, 17, and 19 while a number of isolates were unidentifiable. Sequence analysis of the OmpA gene found high identity (99.0–99.7%) among isolates in Taiwan. These results indicate that RA remains as a significant cause of duck septicemic disease in southern Taiwan.","PeriodicalId":22157,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Veterinary Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78242727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A BIVALENT INACTIVATED VACCINE OF VIRAL NERVOUS NECROSIS VIRUS AND GROUPER IRIDOVIRUS APPLIED TO GROUPER BROODFISH (EPINEPHELUS COIOIDES) REDUCES THE RISK OF VERTICAL TRANSMISSION","authors":"Sue-Min Huang, Jin-hua Cheng, C. Tu, Tzyy‐Ing Chen, Chun-Ta Lin, Shao-Kuang Chang","doi":"10.1142/S1682648517500032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1142/S1682648517500032","url":null,"abstract":"Forty-one broodfish of orange-spotted groupers (Epinephelus coioides) were selected to evaluate the effectiveness of a viral nervous necrosis virus (VNNV) and grouper iridovirus (GIV) inactivated bivalent vaccine in grouper broodfish. Real-time quantitative PCR analysis showed that a detection rate of 10.5% (2/19) was found in egg specimens of VNNV and GIV, which carried approximately 1780 copies of GIV viral DNA in the egg specimens from broodfish before vaccination. This confirmed the vertical transmission route of GIV in broodfish. A significant increase of the anti-VNNV serum antibody titer was more than 50% in the high titer level (1:1810 to 1:5120) and 45% in the moderate titer level (1:452 to 1:1280), which were higher than those of the anti-GIV display, with 50% (10/20) in a titer of 1:57 to 1:320 and 40% (8/20) in a titer of 1:452 to 1:1280 one month after the vaccination. This result showed that the VNNV is a highly antigenic virus and can effectively induce neutralizing antibodies better than GIV. In addition, the VNNV and GIV viral copy numbers were 97.1 and 1780 copies per μg host egg DNA from the broodfish before vaccination, respectively. One month after the vaccination, the viral genomes of VNNV and GIV were undetectable in egg specimens. The results show that immunization can induce the production of specific protective neutralizing antibodies, and the infective antigens can thereby be eliminated by the immunity.The results demonstrate that the specific antibodies of GIV and VNNV induced by vaccination can reduce the risk of vertical transmission of VNNV and GIV in grouper broodfish.","PeriodicalId":22157,"journal":{"name":"Taiwan Veterinary Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91231642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}