Background: Pancreatitis is a common disease in which 37% of dogs had evidence of acute or chronic pancreatitis at necropsy. Although biopsy is still the gold standard to diagnose acute pancreatitis, clinical data including ultrasonographic findings and measurement of canine serum pancreatic lipase ...

Acute pancreatitis in dogs is a prevalent disease characterised by mild to severe inflammation. Treatment with anti-inflammatory corticosteroids has been widely debated but is not generally recommended in veterinary medicine. The objective of the present study was to present current evidence on the ...

Chronic pancreatitis is an inflammatory condition of the pancreas characterized by atrophy, fibrosis, and loss of function. Due to a lack of designated pharmaceutical agents, treatment of canine chronic pancreatitis is usually limited to supportive care. There are reports from Japan about the use...

Background: Diagnosis of pancreatic diseases in dogs is still challenging because of variable clinical signs, which do not always correspond with clinical pathology and histopathological findings. Objectives: To characterize inflammatory and neoplastic pancreatic diseases of dogs and to correlate...

Canine pancreatitis poses a challenge for patients, their owners, and veterinary surgeons, not only because of the difficulty in diagnosing this disease, but also in its treatment. Treatment of canine pancreatitis generally consists of four cornerstones (intravenous fluid therapy, analgesia,...

Background: Zoonotic visceral leishmaniasis is caused by the protozoan Leishmania infantum and is highly lethal in humans and dogs if left untreated. The frequency of this parasite and associated histological changes in the pancreas of dogs are poorly studied. Therefore, the objectives of this...

The objectives of this study were fourfold: technical validation of a commercial canine 1,2-o-dilauryl-rac-glycero glutaric acid-(6′-methylresorufin) ester (DGGR) lipase assay, to calculate a reference interval for DGGR lipase by the indirect a posteriori method, to establish biological validity of ...

An 11-year-old intact female Pomeranian dog was referred for jaundice, anorexia, and vomiting. The blood analysis revealed increased alanine aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase, and gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase. The serum canine pancreatic lipase immunoreactivity was within the normal reference ...

Background: Glucocorticoids (GC) are commonly used for a long term to treat a multitude of immune-mediated, inflammatory, and neoplastic diseases in dogs. Conflicting results of published studies on the effects of exogenous and endogenous GCs on serum canine pancreatic lipase immunoreactivity...

From a clinical perspective pancreatitis can be broadly categorized as acute, recurrent acute or chronic. It can be further classified according to its effect on the patient as mild or severe, nonfatal or fatal, and also by the presence of sequela such as abscess formation. Histologically, acute ...