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2013 ACVIM Forum Research Abstract Program
Seattle, Washington, June 12 – 15, 2013
Index of Abstracts
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
On Display: Thursday, June 13, 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Attended by ALL Authors Eligible for ACVIM Resident Research Awards:
Thursday, June 13, 9:50 AM – 10:30 AM

Attended by ALL Authors – Wine & Cheese Reception:
Friday, June 14, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
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SMALL ANIMAL - CARDIOLOGY
C-22 Evandro Zacche
TIME-DOMAIN HEART RATE VARIABILITY IN DOGS WITH SEPSIS USE OF TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECG TO GUIDE PLACEMENT OF A TRANSESOPHAGEAL PACING CATHETER TO THE OPTIMAL PACING SITE
C-24 Erin Trageser
EVALUATION OF SERUM BIOMARKERS OF COLLAGEN TURNOVER IN CATS
WITH HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY
VIBRATION EFFECT ON INTERSTITIAL CELLS OF THE CANINE MITRAL VALVE EFFECTS OF CATHETER SHAPE, ELECTRODE SIZE AND INTERELECTRODE SPACING ON TRANSESOPHAGEAL ATRIAL PACING IN DOGS BIOLOGICAL VARIABILITY AND CRITICAL CHANGE VALUES FOR ULTRASENSITIVE CARDIAC TROPONIN-I AND NT-proBNP ARE LOWER IN DOGS WITH CARDIAC DISEASE THAN IN HEALTHY CONTROL DOGS INFLUENCE OF BETA BLOCKERS ON SURVIVAL IN DOGS WITH SEVERE SUBAORTIC COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ARTERIAL BLOOD PRESSURE OBTAINED BY DIFFERENT NON-INVASIVE METHODS IN NON-SEDATED NEW ZEALAND WHITE INFLUENCE OF R-R INTERVAL VARIATIONS ON THE DEGREE OF MITRAL REGURGITATION IN DOGS WITH MYXOMATOUS MITRAL VALVE DISEASE EVALUATION OF NT-PRO-BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE (NT-proBNP) AS A PROGNOSTIC INDICATOR OF SHORT-TERM OUTCOME IN CATS WITH HEART
C-32 Jodi Sangster
CARDIAC BIOMARKERS IN HYPERTHYROID CATS

Boldface type indicates ACVIM Resident Research Award eligibility.
C-33 Keith Blass
EFFECT OF IVABRADINE, A NOVEL If CURRENT INHIBITOR, ON DYNAMIC
OBSTRUCTION OF THE LEFT VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW TRACT IN CATS WITH
PRECLINICAL HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY: A SINGLE-DOSE STUDY

C-34 Lauren Markovic
DEVELOPMENT OF SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION AFTER ADMINISTRATION OF
TOCERANIB PHOSPHATE (PALLADIA®) IN DOGS (2010-2012)
BIOANALYTICAL METHOD VALIDATION OF A SECOND-GENERATION IMMUNOASSAY FOR THE QUANTITATION OF NT-proBNP IN CANINE BLOOD SAFETY OF ORAL ADMINISTRATION OF SPIRONOLACTONE IN CATS WITH HEART FAILURE : INTERIM RESULTS OF THE SEISICAT STUDY NEW RADIOGRAPHIC MEASUREMENTS OF LEFT ATRIAL SIZE IN DOGS WITH DEGENERATIVE MITRAL VALVE DISEASE: PRELIMINARY STUDY N-TERMINAL PRO B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE CONCENTRATION IN DOGS WITH CHOCARDIOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF CARDIAC DIMENSIONS AND SYSTOLIC HIGH-DOSE PIMOBENDAN IN THE TREATMENT OF REFRACTORY HEART FAILURE PHARMACOKINETIC EVALUATION OF A DELAYED-RELEASE PROCAINAMIDE
C-42 Erin Trageser

CARDIAC BIOMARKER PROFILES IN DOGS WITH PERICARDIAL EFFUSION
C-43 Jonathan Lichtenberger LONG-TERM CLINICAL BENEFITS OF PHYSIOLOGIC VDD PACING VERSUS NONPHYSIOLOGIC VVI PACING IN DOGS WITH HIGH-GRADE ATRIOVENTRICULAR
C-44 Aliya Magee
THE EFFECT OF THE GP IIb/IIIa ANTAGONISTS ABCIXIMAB AND EPTIFIBATIDE
ON PLATELET AGGREGATION IN HEALTHY CATS
UTILITY OF CIRCULATORY NEUROHORMONES, CARDIAC BIOMARKERS, AND PRO- INFLAMMATORY CYTOKINES IN PREDICTION OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE IN
C-46 Geri Lake-Bakaar
BALLOON VALVULOPLASTY OF TRICUSPID VALVE STENOSIS: A
RETROPECTIVE STUDY OF 5 LABRADOR RETRIEVERS

C-47 Timothy Hodge

EVALAUTION OF THE ROLE OF TICK-BORNE DISEASE IN 25 CASES OF HIGH
GRADE SECOND DEGREE OR COMPLETE ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK IN DOGS
TRANSCATHETER TRISCUPID VALVE REPLACEMENT (TTVR) IN DOGS WITH
C-49 Randolph Winter
ANALYTICAL VALIDATION OF A COMMERCIALLY-AVAILABLE HIGH-
SENSITIVITY IMMUNOASSAY FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF SERUM CARDIAC
TROPONIN I CONCENTRATIONS IN DOGS
CONVENTIONAL AND TISSUE DOPPLER DERIVED INDICES IN PREDICTION OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE IN CANINE MYXOMATOUS MITRAL VALVE DISEASE ISSUE DOPPLER EVALUATION IN NON-SEDATED RABBITS DURING DOXORUBICIN
C-52 Kacie Schmitt
CHARACTERIZATION AND CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF VENTRICULAR
PREMATURE COMPLEXES IN IRISH WOLFHOUNDS
USE OF ALIVECOR HEART MONITOR FOR RATE AND RHYTHM EVALUATION IN ANALYSIS OF 5 CANDIDATE GENES FOR FELINE HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY MUTATIONS IN THE SPHYNX CAT
C-55 Jennifer Schneiderman BRONCHOSCOPIC EVALUATION OF AIRWAY COLLAPSE IN LARGE BREED

DOGS WITH CARDIOMEGALY: 5 CASES
iPHONE WIRELESS ECG ASSESSED HEART RATE IS BETTER CORRELATED WITH HOLTER MONITOR ASSESSED RATES THAN ROUTINE IN-HOSPITAL MEASURES QT IS INCREASED IN DOGS WITH HEART FAILURE SECONDARY TO CHRONIC PARTIAL ANOMALOUS PULMONARY VENOUS CONNECTION IN 4 MINIATURE
C-59 Randolph Winter
MEASUREMENT OF CARDIAC TROPONIN I IN HEALTHY DOGS AND DOGS WITH
DEGENERATIVE MITRAL VALVE DISEASE, CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE, OR
ARRHYTHMIAS USING A HIGH-SENSITIVITY IMMUNOASSAY

C-60 Geri Lake-Bakaar
THE EFFECT OF PIMOBENDAN ON THE INCIDENCE OF CARDIAC
ARRHYTHMIAS
PHARMACOLOGICAL PROFILE OF THE CARDIOACTIVE PROTOTYPE LASSBIO-897: A PRELIMINAR STUDY OF ITS POTENTIAL VASODILATORY ACTIVITY DOPPLER-DERIVED MAXIMUM DP/DT IN DIAGNOSIS OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE IN CANINE MYXOMATOUS MITRAL VALVE DISEASE PHARMACOLOGICAL PROFILE OF THE CARDIOACTIVE PROTOTYPES LASSBIO-294 AND LASSBIO-897: A COMPARATIVE PRELIMINAR STUDY OF THEIR METABOLITES’
C-64 Sonya Wesselowski
DISCREPANCIES IN IDENTIFICATION OF LEFT ATRIAL ENLARGEMENT USING
LEFT ATRIAL VOLUME VS LEFT ATRIAL TO AORTIC ROOT RATIO
SIMPLE AND EASY MITRAL VALVE REPAIR IN DOGS ASSESSMENT OF LEFT ATRIAL SIZE IN CATS WITH LEFT-SIDED CONGESTIVE PREVALENCE, SURVIVAL TIME AND PROGNOSTIC FACTORS OF DOGS WITH ACQUIRED VALVULAR HEART DISEASE : A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF 170 CASES HYPERTENSIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY IN DOGS WITH LEISHMANIA INFANTUM (SYN EQUINE

E-19 JoAnn Slack
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC MEASUREMENTS IN NORMAL NORWEGIAN COLD BLOODED TROTTERS AND ASSOCIATIONS WITH AGE, SEX AND RACE RISKS FACTORS FOR VALVULAR REGURGITATIONS IN 3499 EQUIDS: A CROSS- ORTHOGONAL ECG LEAD Y AND AIR QUALITY IN RACEHORSE STABLES CHANGES IN INTESTINAL MUCOSAL MICROVASCULAR PERFUSION ASSESSED USING ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATION SPECTRAL IMAGING IN THE HORSE VALIDATION OF THREE DIFFERENT NON-INVASIVE DEVICES TO ASSESS ARTERIAL BLOOD PRESSURE IN STANDING AND NON-SEDATED HORSES HYPERINSULINAEMIA DOWNREGULATES TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4 IN THE EQUINE ASSOCIATION OF HYPERLACTATEMIA WITH ALDOSTERONE AND ARGININE VASOPRESSIN CONCENTRATIONS AND CLINICAL INDICATORS OF ASSESSMENT OF COMPOUNDED THYROTROPIN RELEASING HORMONE FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF PITUITARY PARS INTERMEDIA DYSFUNCTION IN HORSES ACUPUNCTURE AND HERBAL MEDICINE USED FOR THE TREATMENT OF A COMPARISON OF TWO DOSES OF OMEPRAZOLE IN THE PREVENTION OF SQUAMOUS EGUS: A RANDOMIZED, BLINDED STUDY EVALUATION OF SERUM FOLATE, COBALAMIN, AND METHYLMALONIC ACID CONCENTRATIONS IN HORSES WITH EQUINE PROLIFERATIVE ENTEROPATHY AND POSITIVE TITERS FOR LAWSONIA INTRACELLULARIS
E-31 Victoria Scott
VENTRAL ABDOMINAL PRESSURES IN HORSES WITH ACUTE COLIC
PRESENTING TO A REFERRAL HOSPITAL
STANDARDIZATION OF EXPERIMENTAL SMALL COLON OBSTRUCTION IN HORSES E-33 Barbara Dallap Schaer THE EFFECTS OF ENDOTOXIN ON VISCOELASTIC AND STANDARD COAGULATION
E-34 Jennifer Sonis
COLIC FOLLOWING SNAKE ENVENOMATION IN HORSES

E-35 SallyAnne Ness

THE EFFECT OF CLOPIDOGREL ON CLINICAL, CELLULAR AND HEMOSTATIC
PARAMETERS DURING EXPERIMENTAL ENDOTOXEMIA IN HORSES

E-36 Marcio Costa

INTESTINAL COLONIZATION OF NEWBORN FOALS CHARACTERIZED BY NEXT
GENERATION SEQUENCING

E-37 Balazs Toth

PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY (PEG) TUBE PLACEMENT IN
E-38 Louise Husted
EFFECT OF N-BUTYLSCOPOLAMMONIUM BROMIDE ON ENEMA RETENTION IN
HEALTHY ANESTHETIZED FOALS
ACTIVATION OF TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR SIGNALING IN EQUINE DIFFERENCES IN EQUINE PULMONARY IMMUNE RESPONSE TO RHODOCOCCUS LEUCOCYTE CITOKINE EXPRESSION IN HORSES DURING AN 80KM ENDURANCE EFFICACY OF LIPOSOME-ENCAPSULATED GENTAMICIN FOR THE TREATMENT OF RHODOCOCCUS EQUI IN A MOUSE INFECTION MODEL
E-45 Gili Schvartz
EQUINE GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS AND LYME DISEASE EXPOSURE IN
HORSES IN CANADA
RISK FACTORS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION WITH SALMONELLA ENTERICA IN A VETERINARY TEACHING HOSPITAL EMERGING OUTBREAKS ASSOCIATED WITH EQUINE CORONAVIRUS IN ADULT RHODOCOCCUS EQUI – A NEW MODEL FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF AN EVALUATION OF A NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION TEST (GENEQUENCE) FOR IDENTIFICATION OF SALMONELLA SPP IN EQUINE FECES AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF INTRAVENOUS POLYMYXIN B ADMINISTRATION IN AN ENDOTOXIN POOLING OF FECES AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLES FOLLOWING A SELECTIVE ENRICHMENT CULTURE STEP FOR THE DETECTION OF SALMONELLA SPP BY REAL- PREVALENCE AND STRAIN CHARACTERIZATION OF METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS FROM EQUINE NASOPHARYNGEAL AND GUTTURAL ENVIRONMENTAL SURVIVAL OF EQUID HERPESVIRUS TYPE 1 (EHV-1) VERIFICATION OF A STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI DETECTION ASSAY FOR EQUINE NASOPHARYNGEAL AND GUTTURAL POUCH WASHES SAMPLES
E-55 Krista Estell
CLINICAL SIGNS, NEUROBEHAVIORAL SCORE, AND
ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM RECORDINGS ASSOCIATED WITH INFUSION OF A
PREGNENOLONE DERIVATIVE TO INDUCE NEONATAL MALADJUSTMENT
SYNDROME
REDUCED THRESHOLD POTENTIAL OF THE TRIGEMINAL NERVE IN EQUINE E-58 Joy Tomlinson
TREATMENT OF IDIOPATHIC HEADSHAKING IN THE HORSE WITH PULSED
HIGH DOSE DEXAMETHASONE
PREVALENCE AND RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH EXERTIONAL RHABDOMYOLYSIS IN AUSTRALIAN POLOCROSSE HORSES
E-60 Carlos Medina-Torres LAMELLAR BIOENERGETICS STUDIED USING TISSUE MICRODIALYSIS

E-61 Claire Underwood
ULTRAFILTRATION OF EQUINE DIGITAL LAMELLAR TISSUE OPTIMISATION AND CHARACTERISATION OF A CONDITIONALLY- IMMORTALISED CHANGES IN SERUM PROTEINS CONCENTRATIONS IN HORSES SUBMITTED TO AN
E-64 Elaine Norton
MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS AND FACTOR VIII SEQUENCE IN A COLT WITH
HEMOPHILIA A
SERUM PROTEIN CONCENTRATION IN HORSES AFTER 160KM, 120KM AND 80KM
E-66 Lisa Fultz
CONCENTRATIONS OF DESFUROYLCEFTIOFUR ACETAMIDE AFTER WEEKLY
ADMINISTRATION OF CEFTIOFUR CRYSTALLINE FREE ACID TO ADULT
HORSES AND COMPARATIVE PHARMACOKINETICS OF THE DRUG AFTER
INTRAMUSCULAR VERSUS SUBCUTANEOUS ADMINISTRATION
COMPARISON OF MELOXICAM AND PHENYLBUTAZONE ON LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE INDUCED SYNOVITIS IN HORSES
E-68 Fernanda Cesar
DISPOSITION OF LEVETIRACETAM IN HEALTHY ADULT HORSES
EFFECT OF BODY WEIGHT ON THE PHARMACOKINETICS OF FLUNIXIN MEGLUMINE IN MINIATURE HORSES AND QUARTER HORSES LOW EFFICACY OF WORMERS ARE NOT ALWAYS A CHEMORESISTANCE PROBLEM
E-71 Eva-Christina Schliewert COMPARISON OF RADIOGRAPHIC AND COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES OF

THE LUNG IN HEALTHY NEONATAL FOALS
THE EFFECT OF CHRONIC CLENBUTEROL ADMINISTRATION ON MUCOCILIARY CLEARANCE AND REPARTITIONING IN ADULT HORSES
E-73 Maud De Lagarde
COMPARISON OF THE EFFICACY AND SIDE-EFFECTS OF N-
BUTYLSCOPOLAMMONIUM BROMIDE AND ATROPINE IN THE TREATMENT OF
HORSES WITH HEAVES
PRELIMINARY EXPERIENCES WITH CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE (CPAP) FOR RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY IN BOVINE AND EQUINE NEONATES
SMALL ANIMAL - NEUROLOGY

N-22 Katherine Finnerty
THERAPEUTIC SERUM PHENOBARBITAL LEVELS IN CATS
N-23 Kari Foss
KINETIC AND KINEMATIC FOLLOW-UP GAIT ANALYSIS IN DOBERMAN
PINCHERS WITH CERVICAL SPONDYLOMYELOPATHY TREATED MEDICALLY
AND SURGICALLY
INHERITANCE OF CERVICAL SPONDYLOMYELOPATHY IN DOBERMAN PINSCHERS MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING FINDINGS IN A CANINE MODEL OF DETERMINATION OF STABILITY AND STORAGE PARAMETERS FOR OPTIMAL DETECTION OF LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE AND ITS ISOENZYMES IN CANINE
N-27 Paula Martin-Vaquero COMPARISON OF NON-CONTRAST COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY AND MAGNETIC

RESONANCE IMAGING IN THE EVALUATION OF GREAT DANES WITH
CERVICAL SPONDYLOMYELOPATHY

SMALL ANIMAL – ONCOLOGY

O-13 Sarah McMillan
EXPRESSION OF ADIPONECTIN RECEPTOR 1 IN CANINE TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA OF THE URINARY BLADDER (VCS Award Winner) EFFECTS OF CRIZOTINIB ON CANINE OSTEOSARCOMA MIGRATION AND INVASION SAFETY EVALUATION OF SYSTEMIC ADMINISTRATION WITH A NEW
SMALL ANIMAL – ENDOCRINOLOGY
EN-13 Mariana Rondelli
ADRENOCORTICAL RESPONSE TO ACTH STIMULATION TEST IN DOGS NATURALLY P450 SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME AUTOANTIBODIES IN DOGS WITH EVALUATION OF SERUM ADIPOKINE CONCENTRATIONS IN DOGS WITH NATURALLY OCCURRING PITUITARY-DEPENDENT HYPERADRENOCORTICISM QUALITATIVE EVALUATION OF URINARY PROTEINS BY SODIUM DODECYL SULPHATE POLYACRILAMIDE GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (SDS-PAGE) DURING THE TREATMENT OF DOGS WITH HYPERADRENOCORTICISM (HAC) EVALUATION OF CIRCULATING LEVELS OF CHOLECYSTOKININ IN DOGS WITH NATURALLY OCCURRING PITUITARY-DEPENDENT HYPERADRENOCORTICISM DOSING OBESE CATS ON A PER KG BASIS AFFECTS SOME MEASURES OF GLUCOSE ADRENAL GLAND ULTRASONOGRAPHY IN DOGS WITH HYPOADRENOCORTICISM EVALUATION OF THYROIDSTIMULATING HORMONE, TOTAL THYROXINE AND FREE THYROXINE CONCENTRATIONS IN 65 HYPERTHYROID CATS RECEIVING PERFLUORINATED COMPOUNDS (PFCs) IN SERUM OF CATS – LINKAGE TO INDOOR
EN-22 Micah Bishop
EFFECTS OF COMBINED ADMINISTRATION OF CYCLOSPORINE AND
PREDNISONE ON SERUM GLUCOSE CONCENTRATIONS
DIAGNOSIS OF PREDIABETES IN CATS: CUTPOINTS FOR IMPAIRED FASTING GLUCOSE AND IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE IN CATS 8 YEARS AND OLDER USING EAR OR PAW SAMPLES AND A PORTABLE GLUCOSE METER CALIBRATED
EN-24 Daniela Vrabelova
EVALUATION OF A HIGH YIELD TECHNIQUE FOR PANCREATIC ISLET
ISOLATION FROM DOG CADAVERS

EN-25 Jennifer Reinhart

EFFECTS OF KETONES AND LACTATE ON SERUM TONICITY ASSESSED USING A
CANINE RED BLOOD CELL ASSAY
QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF URINARY PROTEINS BY S ODIUM DODECYL SULPHATE POLYACRILAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS (SDS- PAGE) AND ALBUMIN-TO-CREATININE RATIO IN DOGS WITH DIABETES MELLITUS MUTATIONS IN FELINE ARGININE VASOPRESSIN IN CATS WITH CENTRAL INVESTIGATION OF BASAL AND POSTPRANDIAL HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA AND INSULIN RESISTANCE IN HEALTHY MINIATURE SCHNAUZERS THERAPY OF CANINE HYPERLIPIDEMIA WITH BEZAFIBRATE DISTRIBUTION OF K AND L CELLS IN THE INTESTINES OF NORMAL CATS PEPTIDE YY AND GLUCAGON LIKE PEPTIDE-1 IN LEAN AND OBESE CATS
SMALL ANIMAL – GASTROENTEROLOGY

GI-12 Tomomi Minamoto
ANALYTICAL ASSESSMENT OF SERUM LIPOPROTEIN PROFILES IN HEALTHY DOGS AND DOGS WITH EXOCRINE PANCREATIC INSUFFICIENCY SERUM HOMOCYSTEINE CONCENTRATIONS IN DOGS WITH CHRONIC CYSTEINE PROTEASES OF FELINE T. FOETUS MEDIATE ADHESION AND CYTOPATHOGENICITY TO INTESTINAL EPITHELIAL CELLS EVALUATION OF THE ABUNDANCE OF BLAUTIA SPP., FUSOBACTERIUM SPP., AND FAECALIBACTERIUM SPP. IN FECES FROM DOGS WITH ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC
GI-16 Romy Heilmann
SERUM SOLUBLE RAGE CONCENTRATIONS ARE DECREASED IN DOGS WITH
IDIOPATHIC INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
WHAT IS THE NUMBER OF DAILY BOWEL MOVEMENTS IN NORMAL PRIVATELY- EXPRESSION OF CLAUDINS PROTEIN IN THE DUODENAL MUCOSA FROM DOGS ANALYTICAL VALIDATION OF A COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE RADIOIMMUNOASSAY KIT FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF FECAL CORTISOL ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT OF A NOVEL NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENT ON THE
GI-21 Candice Bailey
SEROTONIN AND CHROMOGRANIN-A EXPRESSION IS INCREASED IN THE
SMALL INTESTINE OF DOGS WITH INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE
GI-22 Panpicha Sattasathuchana CAUSES OF ACUTE AND CHRONIC REGURGITATION IN 43 DOGS (2010-2012) GI-23 Mellora Sharman CONFOCAL ENDOMICROSCOPIC EVALUATION OF THE CANINE COLON FEASIBILITY OF CONFOCAL ENDOMICROSCOPY FOR IN VIVO HISTOLOGICALLY- EQUIVALENT EVALUATION OF SMALL INTESTINAL MUCOSAL TOPOLOGIC
GI-25 Carly Waugh
SAFETY AND PALATABILITY OF HIGH DOSE PROBIOTIC (VSL#3) IN HEALTHY
ASSESSMENT OF FEASIBILITY OF WSAVA GASTROINTESTINAL STANDARDIZATION GROUP TEMPLATE IN DIFFERENT ANATOMICAL REGIONS OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT IN 9 HEALTHY CATS SUCRALFATE PROTECTS AGAINST ACIDINDUCED GASTRIC MUCOSAL BARRIER PRELIMINARY CLINICAL AND MICROBIOME ASSESSMENT OF STOOL
GI-29 Leah Ferguson
BILIOUS VOMITING SYNDROME IN DOGS: RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF 20 CASES
(2002 - 2012)
TEMPORAL EFFECT OF RATION WATER CONTENT ON PLASMA CONCENTRATIONS OF GLUCOSE, INSULIN, LACTATE AND TOTAL AMINO ACIDS IN THE DOG INCIDENCE OF HISTOPATHOLOGIC INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE IN DOGS WITH BILIARY MUCOCELE: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY (2004-2012) A DOUBLE-BLIND, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED STUDY OF THE USE OF ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM SF68 IN CLIENT-OWNED DOGS RECEIVING MARKED INCREASED EXPRESSION OF INTERLEUKIN 8 IN THE COLORECTAL MUCOSA OF DOGS WITH INFLAMMATORY COLORECTAL POLYPS BUT NOT WITH QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE CONTRAST ENHANCED ULTRASONOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF CERULEIN-INDUCED PANCREATITIS IN DOGS AGREEMENT OF THE SERUM Spec fPL AND 1,2-O-DILAURYL-RAC-GLYCERO-3- GLUTARIC ACID (6'-METHYLRESORUFIN) ESTER (DGGR) LIPASE ASSAY FOR THE DETERMINATION OF SERUM LIPASE IN CATS WITH SUSPICION OF PANCREATITIS GI-36 Anthony Abrams-Ogg EFFECT OF SERUM CREATININE ON PANCREATIC LIPASE IMMUNOREACTIVITY IN DOGS WITHOUT ULTRASONOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF PANCREATITIS A PILOT STUDY TO EVALUATE CIRCULATING LEVELS OF RESISTIN IN DOGS WITH GI-38 Anthony Abrams-Ogg TOTAL SERUM LIPASE ACTIVITY FOR THE ANTEMORTEM DIAGNOSIS OF FELINE GI-39 Joseph Cyrus Parambeth INCREASED FECAL α1-PROTEINASE INHIBITOR CONCENTRATIONS IN DOGS WITH ULTRASOUND EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF VARIOUS PROKINETICS ADMINISTERED INTRAVENOUSLY ON GASTRIC AND DUODENAL MOTILITY IN
SMALL ANIMAL – HEMATOLOGY
HM-10 Amber Stiller

EFFECT OF LOW-DOSE ASPIRIN OR HEPARIN ON PLATELET-DERIVED URINARY
THROMBOXANE METABOLITE IN DOGS WITH IMMUNE-MEDIATED
HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA (IMHA)
USE OF LIPOSOMAL CLODRONATE TO FACILITATE DETECTION OF SUBCLINICAL INFECTION WITH BABESIA CANIS IN GREYHOUNDS
HM-12 Ahmira Torres
HEMATOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN DACHSHUNDS AND MIXED BREED
THE EFFECT OF PLATELET-CONTAINING PRODUCTS ON HEMOSTASIS IN DOGS AFTER TOTAL BODY IRRADIATION INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA THE PROTEOME OF CANINE PLATELET: INSIGHTS ON ITS PHYSIOLOGIC AND
HM-15 Haruhiko Maruyama CONGENITAL FACTOR VII DEFICIENCY IN PAPILLON DOGS
HM-16 Lisa Hann
EFFECT OF DURATION OF PACKED RED BLOOD CELL STORAGE ON
MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY IN DOGS FOLLOWING TRANSFUSION
COMPATIBILITY OF DOMESTIC CAT BLOOD WITH NON-DOMESTIC FELID BLOOD EVALUATION OF A FELINE BLOOD TYPING DEVICE (RAPIDVET®-H IC FELINE) EFFECT OF MANUAL OR CHEMICAL (MEDETOMIDINE) RESTRAIN ON RED BLOOD CELLS OR RETICULOCYTES COUNT IN STRAY CATS COMPLETE BLOOD CELLS AND RETICULOCYTES COUNT IN CATS WITH THE PREVALENCE OF ANEMIA IN CRITICALLY ILL DOGS AND CATS: A MULTI- HM-9 Anthony Abrams-Ogg USE OF A NOVEL 13-GAUGE NEEDLE FOR BONE MARROW BIOPSY IN HEALTHY
SMALL ANIMAL – HEPATOLOGY

HP-4 Andrea Johnston
ABSENCE OF PKD1 POINT MUTATION IN CATS WITH HEPATOFIBROCYSTIC
HP-5 Pedro Bento
HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA/ADENOMA IN 94 DOGS: ASSOCIATION WITH
VACUOLAR HEPATOPATHY AND ADRENAL HYPERACTIVITY

HP-6 Joanna Fry

EVALUATION OF COBALAMIN STATUS IN DOGS WITH HEPATIC DISEASE
THE EFFECT OF 6-8 WEEKS OF URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID ADMINISTRATION ON BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS AND BILE ACIDS IN HEALTHY CANINES
HP-8 Stephanie Kemp
A COMPARISON OF LIVER BIOPSY TECHNIQUES IN DOGS

SMALL ANIMAL – INFECTIOUS DISEASE
ID-10 Madeline Fujishiro
EVALUATION FOR ASSOCIATIONS AMONG COXIELLA BURNETII AND CANINE LEPTOSPIROSIS - A STATISTICAL EVALUATION OF SEROVARS PREDOMINANTLY INDUCING LEPTOSPIRAL ANTIBODY RESPONSES IN 3907 DOGS URINE SEDIMENT IDENTIFICATION OF BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS ORGANISMS IN DOGS WITH CONFIRMED SYSTEMIC INFECTION TRENDS IN TICK-BORNE DISEASE EXPOSURE IN DOGS FROM THE USA AND CANADA DETERMINED BY SPECIES-SPECIFIC PEPTIDE ASSAY SELF-REPORTED HAND HYGIENE AND GLOVE USE HABITS OF PRACTICING ALPHA-1 ACID GLYCOPROTEIN IN CATS WITH FELINE INFECTIOUS PERITONITIS VACCINE-ASSOCIATED LEPTOSPIRA ANTIBODY RESPONSES IN CLIENT-OWNED ADMINISTRATION OF SQ AND INTRANASAL FHV-1 CONTAINING VACCINES CONCURRENTLY IS SUPERIOR TO USE OF A SQ VACCINE ALONE IN A ONE WEEK SELF-REPORTED HAND HYGIENE PRACTICES AND PERCEPTIONS IN COMPANION ANIMAL VETERINARY CLINICS IN ONTARIO, CANADA CLINICAL TRIAL TO ASSESS THE EFFICACY OF PONAZURIL FOR THE TREATMENT
ID-20 Sarah Shropshire
EVALUATION FOR ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN BARTONELLA SPECIES
ANTIBODIES AND AZOTEMIA IN CLIENT-OWNED CATS

ID-21 Audra Fenimore

LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS SEROVAR HARDJO-PRAJITNO DNA IN THE URINE OF
A CAT IN COLORADO
INDUCTION OF PROTECTIVE ANTIBODY TITERS IN SHELTER DOGS AFTER ADMINISTRATION OF A VACCINE CONTAINING RECOMBINANT CANINE DISTEMPER VIRUS AND MODIFIED-LIVE CANINE PARVOVIRUS SERUM ELECTROLYTE ABNORMALITIES IN COMPLICATED CANINE BABESIOSIS COMPARISON OF PREVALENCE OF FELINE LEUKEMIA AND IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUSES IN FERAL CATS ON THE SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA, 2001-2003 AND 2005- CORRELATION AMONG HISTOLOGICAL CHANGES AND THE PRESENCE OF CD3+T ND CD79+B LYMPHOCYTE WITH ANTIGENS OF LEISHMANIA INFANTUM IN RENAL TISSUE OF DOGS WITH VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS ID-26 Sukullaya Assarasakorn DETERMINATION OF BARTONELLA HENSELAE QUANTITATIVE PCR ASSAY RESULTS IN BLOOD SAMPLES OF FEBRILE AND AFEBRILE CLIENT-OWNED CATS ACCURACY OF A POINT-OF-CARE IMMUNOASSAY TO DETERMINE PROTECTIVE ANTIBODY TITERS FOR CANINE PARVOVIRUS AND CANINE DISTEMPER VIRUS TAIL VACCINATION IN CATS: BALANCING DISEASE PROTECTION AND CANCER IN VITRO INTERACTION OF ATOVAQUONE AND PROGUANIL AGAINST BABESIA GIBSONI AND EFFICACY OF THE COMBINATION THERAPY FOR ACUTE CANINE EVALUATION OF ANTIBODIES RESPONSE AGAINST LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS SEROVARS CANICOLA, ICTEROHAEMORRHAGIAE AND COPENHAGENI IN ADULT DOGS REVACCINATED ANNUALLY WITH COMMERCIAL VACCINE EVIDENCE FOR FELINE IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS, FELINE LEUKAEMIA VIRUS, BARTONELLA SPP, HAEMOPLASMAS, AND TOXOPLASMA SPP. EXPOSURE IN PREVALENCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN LARGE-SCALE CAT HOARDING
SMALL ANIMAL – IMMUNOLOGY

IM-6 Dae-seung Baek
INCREASED LEVEL OF CD4+/CD25+/FOXP3+ REGULATORY T CELLS IN THE ERIPHERAL BLOOD OF 7 DOGS WITH IMMUNE-MEDIATED HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA CANINE STERILE NEUTROPHILIC DERMATITIS IN DOGS RESEMBLING SWEET SYNDROME AND ITS TEMPORAL RELATION TO VACCINATION SERIAL CD4+/CD25+/FOXP3+ REGULATORY T CELL CHANGES IN CANINE SEPTIC DEVELOPMENT & VALIDATION OF NOVEL MULTIPLEX ASSAYS FOR FELINE
SMALL ANIMAL – NUTRITION / METABOLISM

NM-10 Lynda Melendez
FOODS WITH CONTROLLED PROTEIN AND PHOSPHORUS AND ENHANCED WITH ANTIOXIDANTS VITAMIN E AND C REDUCE CIRCULATING UREA AND SYMMETRICAL DI-METHYL ARGININE, AND INCREASE INOSINE IN DOGS MINERAL COMPOSITION OF WATER INDUCES CHANGES IN URINE OF CATS LEAN BODY MASS INCREASES, BODY FAT DECREASES DURING WEIGHT MAINTENANCE FOLLOWING WEIGHT LOSS IN OBESE DOGS LEAN BODY MASS INCREASES, BODY FAT DECREASES DURING WEIGHT MAINTENANCE FOLLOWING WEIGHT LOSS IN OBESE CATS NUTRITIONAL STATUS OF DOGS UNDERGOING CALORIC RESTRICTION FOR INCREASING DIETARY PROTEIN CONCENTRATION FROM 15% TO 30% IN A ONE YEAR STUDY INCREASES GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE AND REDUCES CREATININE AND SYMMETRICAL DI-METHYL ARGININE
SMALL ANIMAL – NEPHROLOGY / UROLOGY

NU-13 Amanda Coleman
ATTENUATION OF THE PRESSOR RESPONSE TO EXOGENOUS ANGIOTENSIN BY ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR BLOCKERS IN NORMAL CATS WEEK-TO-WEEK VARIABILITY OF IOHEXOL CLEARANCE, SERUM CREATININE, AND SYMMETRIC DIMETHYLARGININE IN DOGS WITH STABLE CHRONIC RENAL EVALUATION OF HEMOSTASIS IN 256 DOGS WITH RENAL DISEASE INFLUENCE OF AZODYLTM ON UREA AND WATER METABOLISM IN UREMIC DOGS VALIDATION OF A SLOW DIALYSATE BYPASS DEVICE (SDBD) PERMITTING SLOW HEMODIALYSIS DELIVERY ON INTERMITTENT HEMODIALYSIS PLATFORMS MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION AND QUANTITATIVE PCR ANALYSIS OF FELINE GENE HOMOLOGUES ENCODING EICOSANOID BIOSYNTHETIC ENZYMES SURVEY OF THE DIETARY AND MEDICATION PRACTICES OF OWNERS OF CATS PREVALENCE OF VARIANT ALLELES ASSOCIATED WITH PROTEIN-LOSING NEPHROPATHY IN SOFT COATED WHEATEN TERRIERS LCMS METHOD DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION FOR A POTENTIAL CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE MARKER SYMMETRICAL DIMETHYL ARGININE COMPARISON OF PLASMA AND URINARY CLEARANCE OF EXOGENOUS
NU-23 Sandro Hinden
EVALUATION OF AN ESOPHAGO-JEJUNAL FEEDING TECHNIQUE IN DOGS WITH
SEVERE ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY

NU-24 Allison Cobrin

SERUM AND URINE NEUTROPHIL GELATINASE-ASSOCIATED LIPOCALIN
(NGAL) CONCENTRATION IN HEALTHY DOGS AND DOGS WITH CHRONIC
KIDNEY DISEASE
STABILITY OF SDMA (SYMMETRICAL DIMETHYL ARGININE) IN CANINE AND
NU-26 Melanie Hall
EFFICACY AND ADVERSE EFFECTS OF LANTHANUM CARBONATE IN CATS
ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY SECONDARY TO LILY INTOXICATION IN 30 CATS ANALYTICAL VALIDATION OF THE PARTICLE-ENHANCED NEPHELOMETER FOR CYSTATIN C MEASUREMENT IN FELINE SERUM AND URINE URINARY PH AFFECTS URINARY CALCIUM EXCRETION BUT NOT CALCIUM OXALATE RELATIVE SUPERSATURATION IN HEALTHY CATS EFFICACY AND ADVERSE EFFECTS OF NITROFURANTOIN TREATMENT OF URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS IN DOGS AND CATS PERCUTANEOUS FLUOROSCOPIC-ASSISTED PERINEAL APPROACH FOR RIGID NU-32 Shelly Olin
DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF A NOVEL POINT-OF-CARE URINARY CULTURE
TEST IN DOGS
DEVELOPMENT OF FELINE CYSTATIN C ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY KIT IN PLASMA AND URINE, AND ITS CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE LONG-TERM SAFETY OF ESTRIOL TABLETS IN HEALTHY BEAGLE DOGS QUANTIFICATION OF SELECTED EICOSANOID METABOLITES IN URINARY
NU-36 Lisa Singer
UROTHELIAL EXPRESSION OF CYCLOOXYGENASES-1 (COX-1) AND 2 (COX-2),
AND LIPOXYGENASE-5 (5-LOX) IN HEALTHY CATS AND CATS WITH LOWER
URINARY TRACT DISEASES
CYSTOCENTESIS IN CATS: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE EVALUATION PREVALENCE AND CAUSES OF URINE SPECIFIC GRAVITY ≤ 1.035 IN APPARENTLY HEALTHY CATS PRESENTING TO FIRST OPINION PRACTICE A DIAGNOSTIC TEST FOR FELINE IDIOPATHIC CYSTITIS BASED ON INFRARED INFLUENCE OF BLADDER FLUSHING ON DURATION OF CATHETERIZATION, HOSPITALIZATION AND RECURRENCE IN CATS WITH URETHRAL OBSTRUCTION
SMALL ANIMAL – OTHER
OT-5 Silvia Lucas
SERUM C REACTIVE PROTEIN CONCENTRATIONS IN DOGS WITH IDIOPATHIC OT-6 Archivaldo Reche Junior A CLOSER MEDICAL LOOK AT CATS SHOWING INAPPROPRIATE URINATION: A EVALUATION OF THREE DIFFERENT POINT-OF-CARE TESTS FOR QUANTITATIVE
OT-8 Kirsten Prosser
AN ASSESSMENT OF ROUTINE WELLNESS BLOOD TESTING IN COMPANION
REPRODUCTIVE CAPACITY IS ASSOCIATED WITH LIFESPAN AND CAUSE OF DEATH DEMOGRAPHY OF SMALL ANIMAL CLINICAL CASES IN EGYPT
OT-11 Kirsten Prosser
AN ASSESSMENT OF ROUTINE WELLNESS BLOOD TESTING IN COMPANION
CANINES AND CHILDHOOD CANCER: EXAMINING THE EFFECTS OF ANIMAL- ASSISTED THERAPY FOR CHILDREN WITH ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA, THEIR PRIMARY CAREGIVERS, AND THERAPY DOGS POWER OF GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES AND SEQUENCING FOR DISEASE AND TRAIT GENE DETECTION IN DOMESTIC CATS SMALL ANIMAL – PHARMACOLOGY

P-5 Jessica Quimby
ORAL, SUBCUTANEOUS AND INTRAVENOUS PHARMACOKINETICS OF
P-6 Daniel Langlois

PHARMACOKINETICS AND RELATIVE BIOAVAILABILITY OF D-PENICILLAMINE
IN FASTED AND NON-FASTED DOGS
DETERMINATION OF SERUM SYMMETRIC DIMETHYLARGININE REFERENCE LIMIT A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED MASKED CLINICAL TRIAL OF A NOVEL NUTRACEUTICAL FOR TREATMENT OF OSTEOARTHRITIS IN THE DOG A METHOD FOR DETECTION AND QUANTITATION OF PLASMA LEVELS OF PIOGLITAZONE AFTER ORAL ADMINISTRATION IN DOGS EFFICACY OF IVERMECTIN INJECTION, CANAURAL EAR DROPS AND FRONTLINE COMBO IN TREATMENT OF EARMITE-INDUCED OTITIS EXTERNA IN CATS
SMALL ANIMAL – RESPIRATORY

R-6 Katharine Woods

COMPARISON OF BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE ASPIRATION TECHNIQUES IN
HEALTHY DOGS: HANDHELD SYRINGE AND SUCTION PUMP ASPIRATION
EVALUATION OF MINIMALLY-INVASIVE MODEL OF AUTOLOGOUS BLOOD CLOT PULMONARY THROMBOEMBOLISM IN AN EXPERIMENTAL CANINE MODEL SEVERED ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE TRACHEAL FOREIGN BODIES IN DOGS AND CATS:

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