Australian Veterinary Practitioner
Published by: Australian Veterinary AssociationElectronic ISSN: 0310 - 138X
The Australian Veterinary Practitioner is the official journal of the Australian Small Animal Veterinarians. The AVP is an independently refereed clinical journal, published four times per year to further the clinical and educational interests of veterinary practitioners and students throughout Australia.
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Volume 54 ( 2024 )
Issue 1 ( Mar )
Volume 53 ( 2023 )
Issue 5 ( Dec )
Issue 4 ( Oct )
Issue 3 ( Jul )
Issue 2 ( May )
Issue 1 ( Mar )
Volume 52 ( 2022 )
Issue 3 ( Sep )
Issue 2 ( Jun )
Issue 1 ( Mar )
Volume 51 ( 2021 )
Issue 4 ( Dec )
Issue 3 ( Sep )
Issue 2 ( Jun )
Issue 1 ( Mar )
Volume 50 ( 2020 )
Issue 4 ( Dec )
Issue 3 ( Sep )
Issue 2 ( Jun )
Issue 1 ( Mar )
Volume 49 ( 2019 )
Issue 4 ( Dec )
Issue 3 ( Sep )
Issue 2 ( Jun )
Issue 1 ( Mar )
Articles
- Australian Veterinary Practitioner Volume 54, Issue 1 - Full publication
- Australian Veterinary Practitioner Volume 53, Issue 5 - Full publication
- Australian Veterinary Practitioner Volume 53, Issue 4 - Full publication
- Australian Veterinary Practitioner Volume 53, Issue 1 - Full publication
- Australian Veterinary Practitioner Volume 53, Issue 2 - Full publication
- Australian Veterinary Practitioner Volume 53, Issue 3 - Full publication
- Consensus Statement on Life Stage Diagnostic Health Screenings for Dogs and Cats
- Message from the Editor
- What is your diagnosis?
- Acute manifestation of a rare congenital right-sided pleuroperitoneal hernia after a high-altitude flight
- Message from the Editor
- Around the journals...
- Surgical management of bilateral semitendinosus fibrotic myopathy and cranial cruciate ligament disease in a German Shepherd Dog
- Bacterial endophthalmitis secondary to pyelonephritis in a cat
- Pericardial effusion caused by Feline Infectious Peritonitis in a cat
- Recurrent tension pneumothorax during herniorrhaphy in a dog with concurrent peritoneopericardial diaphragmatic hernia and pleuropericardial hernia
- Vascular transformation of a serosal lymph node in a cat
- Paecilomycosis in two Australian dogs
- An auto-penetrating wound resulting in delayed bilothorax
- Disseminated intravascular coagulation following stereotactic radiotherapy of a nasal tumour in a Labrador retriever
- Gastric ulceration associated with Nakaseomyces glabrata (formerly Candida glabrata) in a cat with Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP)
- Review of CBD for treatment of OA in dogs
- Pyothorax and pulmonary lymphomatoid granulomatosis in a cat
- Treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius surgical site infection with linezolid in a Great Dane
- Adverse events associated with cerebellomedullary cistern cerebrospinal fluid collection in 150 dogs with suspected intracranial disease: a retrospective case series
- Management of sleep disordered breathing in a dog using continuous positive airway pressure
- Development of ulcerative footpad lesions following free doxorubicin chemotherapy in a cat
- Metastatic Sertoli cell tumour in a dog treated with surgery, and metronomic cyclophosphamide and toceranib phosphate
- Intramedullary spinal cryptococcoma lesion in a dog diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging, cerebrospinal fluid cytology and real-time PCR assay
- Abstracts
- Laparoscopic cryptorchidectomy in two dogs with testicular torsion
- What is Your Diagnosis? The answer and some more questions
- Serum Symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA) concentrations in a population of dogs with multicentric large B cell lymphoma
- In vivo diagnosis of Toxoplasma gondii myocarditis in a cat
- Renal salvage following traumatic herniation of the kidney in a dog
- Care and husbandry of sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps)
- Management of a skin wound associated with use of an electronic anti-barking collar in a dog
- Editorial
- How to identify the most likely neurological diagnosis without MRI or CT
- Partial carpal arthrodesis for a case of ectrodactyly in a 10-month-old Samoyed
- Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, trichoblastoma and trichoepithelioma in dogs from a tropical region: potential implications of sun exposure
- Anaesthesia guidelines for dogs and cats
- Persistent vaginal haemorrhage in a dog with an ovarian bursal abscess
- Congenital keratoconjunctivitis sicca and ichthyosiform dermatosis in a Cavalier King Charles spaniel with a single defective copy of the FAM83H gene
- Abstracts
- Acute-phase proteins in small animals
- More than seizures - behavioural comorbidities in canine idiopathic epilepsy
- Plasma free metanephrines before and after adrenalectomy in a cat with phaeochromocytoma
- Abstracts
- Review of CBD as an adjunctive treatment for epilepsy in the Australian veterinary landscape - where are we currently and where are we going?
- Abstracts
- Non-neoplastic and neoplastic disorders linked to desexing in dogs
- Pituitary surgery in dogs and cats: new options for common problems
- Pre- and postoperative computed tomography and reconstructive surgery for canine aural atresia
- Guidelines for Authors
- Dried apricots causing food engorgement and gastric obstruction in a dog
- Abstracts
- Behavioural and/or neurological Night-time Waking and Restlessness
- Aortic stenosis secondary to suspected aortic sclerosis in a dog
- A review of gastropexy in canine gastric dilatation-volvulus: Techniques, complications and outcomes
- A retrospective study of blunt trauma in dogs and cats: 167 cases
- Message from the Editor
- What is your diagnosis? Cytology from a tarsal mass
- Nerve blocks: linchpin to dental pain
- Around the journals January-June 2023
- Rabbit and rodent dentistry: where to start?
- Chronic nasal disease in the dog: diagnosis and treatment
- Comparison of small animal general practitioners' and emergency veterinarians' behaviours and attitudes to the use of veterinary triage tools
- Suspected anaphylaxis in a dog following administration of tiger-brown snake anti-venom
- Abstracts
- Surgical approach to nasolacrimal duct atresia in a German shepherd puppy
- Morbidity and mortality in tawny frogmouths (Podargus strigoides) presented for veterinary care
- Use of an acrylic trans-articular external skeletal fixator for joint immobilisation following multiligamentous stifle injury in 6 cats; technique description and outcomes
- Ventral approach for the placement of a toggle rod in two dogs with caudoventral hip luxation
- Primary digital chondrosarcoma with pulmonary metastasis in a dog
- Right stifle haemarthrosis as the primary presenting sign in a dog with splenic haemangiosarcoma
- Abdominal ultrasonographic findings and post mortem diagnosis of a haemocholecyst in a case of canine leptospirosis
- Suspected norepinephrine-associated skin slough in a dog with sepsis
- Message from the Editor
- Three cases of intersexuality in dogs
- What is your diagnosis? Biochemistry results from an ataxic cat
- Urinary incontinence due to congenital prostatic urethral dilation in two dogs
- Surgical repair of bilateral inguinal hernias in a bitch
- Comparison of the use of a bipolar vessel sealing device and conventional incisional techniques for staphylectomy in brachycephalic dogs
- Juvenile onset masticatory muscle myositis diagnosed in a 16-week-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy
- Osteosarcoma in a dog eight years after tibial plateau leveling osteotomy with an angle stable implant
- Supraventricular tachycardia following iohexol administration in an anaesthetised dog with a large jugular thrombus created by an artificial pacemaker
- Surgical decompression of a caudal vertebral disc extrusion in a dog, without dorsal laminectomy or foraminotomy
- Abstracts
- Pulse oximetry and venous blood gas analysis of 119 dogs diagnosed with the paralysis tick Ixodes holocyclus
- Persistent left cranial vena cava and absent right cranial vena cava in a German shepherd dog with multiple congenital cardiovascular defects
- Abnormal salivation in a dog with a malignant nerve sheath neoplasm involving the glossopharyngeal nerve
- Abstracts
- Splenic sarcoma and carcinoma collision tumour in a dog
- Abstracts
- Progressive dyspnoea in a kitten 2 days after ovariohysterectomy
- Dietary management for gastrointestinal surgery
- Editorial: A few last words from this editor
- Abstracts
- Gastric dilatation-volvulus in dogs: A review of the literature from 2000-2020
- Grain free diets for dogs: What every veterinarian should know
- Raw food diets: Facts, philosophy, and fallacy
- Critical appraisal of medical and dietary treatments of proteinuria in dogs and cats
- Advertorial: Your Handy Guide to Diagnostics in Canine OE
- Minimally invasive plate osteosynthesis of diaphyseal humeral fractures using a lateral plate-rod application in dogs and cats: 11 cases (2007-2021)
- How to approach a cat with a gastrointestinal mass
- Digital flexor tenotomy for the treatment of digital pad corns in sighthounds
- Remote tocodynamometry monitoring using WiFi to support veterinarians in home-based obstetrical management
- Circular external fixator assisted interlocking nail stabilisation of a comminuted tibial fracture in a dog
- Proposed novel ductal plate malformation in the liver of a young golden retriever
- Improving hand hygiene in small animal veterinary practice: A pilot trial
- Desexing: Making sense of the literature and conversations with clients
- Accidental cutting of a misplaced temperature probe during lung lobectomy in a dog
- Acute respiratory distress in a 21-year-old southern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons): diagnostic imaging and pathology findings
- Diaphragmatic eventration in a kitten and subsequent surgical intervention
- Post-retinal blindness as the sole clinical sign of intracranial neoplasia in two dogs
- Intravenous lipid emulsion therapy in meth/amphetamine toxicosis of two dogs
- Message from the Editor
- What is your diagnosis?
- Abstracts
- Prevalence of adverse events following lumbar collection of cerebrospinal fluid in cats: 25 cases (2012-2019)
- Around the journals July-December 2023
- Management of devastating facial gunshot injuries in an English cocker spaniel
- Primary Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum, Pneumothorax and Subcutaneous Emphysema in a Cat with Urethral Obstruction
- Abstracts
- Abstracts
- Abstracts
- Spontaneous resolution of a postoperative pharyngocutaneous fistula in a dog following repair of traumatic laryngeal avulsion
- Clavulanate and cephalosporins: what is the cost of convenience?
- Appropriateness of empirical antimicrobial therapy for the treatment of septic peritonitis in dogs and its impact on survival
- Computed tomography findings and surgical management of acute oropharyngeal stick injuries in dogs
- Nutritional requirements of racing greyhounds: a review
- An uncharacteristically aggressive subcutaneous mast cell tumour with intra-articular invasion in a dog
- Partial foot amputation and digit centralisation in a dog
- Thyroid storm signs in a dog with an ectopic thyroid tumour
- Treatment of a distal tibial angular limb deformity using computer and stereolithography assisted pre-operative planning and a tibial plateau levelling osteotomy locking compression plate in a novel fashion
- Autologous blood pleurodesis ("blood patch") as a treatment for traumatic pneumothorax in a cat
- Technical challenges for sequential surgical failures of a patellar ligament rupture in a German shepherd dog
- Abstracts