Symposium I. Common Diseases

SYMPOSIUM I: Respiratory Zoonoses ZOONOTIC RESPIRATORY DISEASES CAUSED BY VIRUSES

Symposium on Cardiovascular Diseases

Syncope is a clinical syndrome characterized by transient loss of consciousness and postural tone that is most often due to temporary and spontaneously self-terminating global cerebral hypoperfusion. A common presenting problem to health care systems, the management of syncope imposes a considerable socioeconomic burden. Clinical guidelines, such as the European Society of Cardiology Guidelines...

Symposium on Cerebrovascular Diseases

The treatment of acute ischemic stroke has evolved from observation and the passage of time dictating outcome to an approach that emphasizes time from ictus, rapid response, and a dedicated treatment team. We review the treatment of acute ischemic stroke from the prehospital setting, to the emergency department, to the inpatient hospital setting. We discuss the importance of prehospital assessm...

Viral Diseases: a Symposium

THIS is a weighty and heavily documented textbook which should prove of great value to experimental toxicologists. It is arranged in four sections, each section consisting of a number of chapters reviewing the literature on a single aspect of toxicology. There are 35 contributors. The first section of 150 pages is concerned with general principles of toxicology, the absorption, metabolism and e...

Common Canine Liver Diseases and How I Manage Them