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Alfie is a 7-year-old springer spaniel sent to us for investigation of his rapid breathing. An ultrasound scan showed infected fluid in his chest and a CT scan showed massive inflammation in the tissue around his lungs and heart. He was taken to emergency open-chest surgery but, during the operation, the MostCare monitor, an advanced…

Our Head of Soft Tissue Surgery, Jackie Demetriou, has just returned from the Eastern European Regional Veterinary Conference, in Bucharest, where she presented 6 lectures on the topics of wound reconstruction and oncology. With over 1,600 delegates attending from all over Europe, she has contributed greatly to DWR’s aim of sharing our knowledge as widely…

When we expanded our premises in 2013, roughly doubling the floor space available to us, we wondered at first how we would fill it all! Needless to say, that took very little time to achieve. With our increasing caseload and therefore number of employees. We were soon using every inch of that new space. Now,…

As a cost control measure RSA recently launched a Preferred Referral Network, agreeing fixed treatment costs with ‘preferred’ referral practices. In order to incentivise the use of these preferred providers, they have introduced financial penalties for customers of Argos, Homebase, John Lewis, Marks & Spencers, More Than and Tesco who choose referral practices not on…

We have heard from the University of Nottingham that 3 of the Interns who recently completed their internships at DWR have achieved academic success. Floris Drões, Kine Elmenhorst and Pablo Pérez López have all achieved their post graduate certificates; Pablo and Kine with Merit and Flores with Distinction. This is a great achievement and we…

DWR Internal Medicine Specialist and Head of Cardiology, Jon Wray, has authored a new textbook ‘Canine Internal Medicine: What’s Your Diagnosis?’ published by Wiley Blackwell. The book is a guide to handling internal medicine cases in the clinical setting, combining problem-based learning and case studies with questions and answers. It is designed for veterinarians in…

Members of our Cardiology and Nursing Teams were out and abut at The London Vet Show last week, providing information and advice about continuous heart monitoring and the Holter Monitoring Service. This was established in 2005 by Ruth Willis to support vets in small animal practice by providing ambulatory ECG (Holter) monitors and interpreting the…

The following recently published papers illustrate the benefits of research collaboration, both between disciplines and between organisations. Negrin, A., Spencer, S. and Cherubini, G.B. (2017) Feline meningoencephalomyelitis of unknown origin: a retrospective analysis of 16 cases. Can. Vet. J. 1073-1080. Banzato, T., Bernardini, M., Cherubini, G.B. and Zotti, A. (2017) Texture analysis of MRI to predict histologic grade…

Coco Bollu, a 6 year old Yorkshire terrier, first came to DWR at the beginning of 2016 because he had breathing difficulties on exercise. He was diagnosed with mild tracheal collapse which was managed very well medically for about 18 months. Recently however, the condition worsened significantly, to the point that his trachea was becoming…