Chapter 126 - Hepatitis and Cholangiohepatitis
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING*
- Center 1996
- SA CenterAcute hepatic injury: Hepatic necrosis and fulminant hepatic failureWG Guilford, SA Center, DR Strombeck, DA Williams, DJ Meyer (Eds.), Strombeck's small animal gastroenterology (ed 3), Saunders, Philadelphia (1996)
An excellent review chapter. Although from an older text, most information current. Gives information regarding several causes of acute hepatitis
- Center 1996
- SA CenterChronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, breed-specific hepatopathies, copper storage hepatopathy, suppurative hepatitis, granulomatous hepatitis, and idiopathic hepatic fibrosisWG Guilford, SA Center, DR Strombeck, DA Williams, DJ Meyer (Eds.), Strombeck's small animal gastroenterology (ed 3), Saunders, Philadelphia (1996)
Another excellent review from this older text discussing the causes of CH in dogs and cats in great detail
- Gagne 1999
- JM Gagne, PJ Armstrong, DJ Weiss, et al.Clinical features of inflammatory liver disease in cats: 41 cases (1983-1993)J Am Vet Med Assoc, 214 (1999), p. 513
A retrospective study describing the clinical signs and clinicopathologic findings in cats with inflammatory liver disease. Diseases classified as acute cholangiohepatitis, chronic cholangiohepatitis, or LPH
- Gillespie 2003
- TN Gillespie, RJ Washabau, MH Goldschmidt, et al.Detection of Bartonella henselae and Bartonella clarridgeiae DNA in hepatic specimens from two dogs with hepatic diseaseJ Am Vet Med Assoc, 222 (2003), p. 47
A case series describing two cases of canine hepatic disease where Bartonella species were isolated from hepatic tissue via polymerase chain reaction
- Johnson 2005
- SE JohnsonChronic hepatic disordersSJ Ettinger, EC Feldman (Eds.), Textbook of veterinary internal medicine (ed 6), Saunders, St Louis (2005)
An excellent review of workup and treatment for animals with chronic hepatic disorders containing particularly useful information regarding canine CH.
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