A UC Davis study provides insight into the factors affecting longevity, disease and death in cats so that we can help provide as many quality years as possible.
Chunk was just a tiny kitten when he was brought to the UC Davis veterinary hospital where he was enrolled in a CCAH-funded clinical trial studying various treatments for ringworm.
UC Davis veterinary surgeons and cardiologists recently published research on the outcomes of thoracoscopic treatment of idiopathic chylothorax in dogs.
This recently published case study was the result of treatment on a cat by the UC Davis veterinary team from 2006-09. Recently, a UC Davis veterinary student took interest in the “cold case” and published the results.
Dr. Boaz Arzi, chief of the Dentistry and Oral Surgery Service at the UC Davis veterinary hospital, has been accepted as an affiliate member to the American Society of Temporomandibular Joint Surgeons. He is the first veterinarian accepted into the society.
Ginger, a 13-year-old Belgian Malinois, has a complicated case of megaesophagus that progressed to malnutrition and was becoming life threatening until a first-time procedure at UC Davis saved her.
Tiddles was a 4-year-old Papillon when he was diagnosed in 2011 with a brain tumor. His referring veterinarian gave him approximately 2 months to live. Other documented cases showed that, even with innovative treatments, he would probably not survive more than a year or two. But thanks to research, equipment, and treatments made possible by the donors to the Center for Companion Animal Health, Tiddles beat the odds. He recently turned 15 and is celebrating a decade of being cancer free.
Lily, a 9-month-old female Bengal cat, is now in remission from feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) thanks to clinical trials at the UC Davis veterinary hospital.
With its new Access To Care Program, the UC Davis veterinary hospital was able to save Rupert, a male domestic shorthair kitten, and help find him a forever home.
The Dentistry and Oral Surgery Service at the UC Davis veterinary hospital is opening a monthly Stomatitis Clinic to better serve patients suffering from this oral disease and provide them with cutting-edge diagnostic and therapeutic options.
