Clinical News: Feline Internal Medicine

Review Article: Is there any point in referring cases of chronic renal failure?

The traditional view of chronic renal disease is that, with the exception of instigating a proprietary ‘kidney diet’, there is very little that can be done to help. In fact there are a number of therapeutic options that have the potential to improve quality of life and to slow disease progression.

Diabetic ketoacidosis: an endocrine emergency

Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a commonly seen and rapidly life-threatening endocrine emergency. DKA develops in severe uncontrolled cases of diabetes mellitus. A relative or absolute lack of insulin leads to hyperglycaemia due to lack of uptake of glucose into the tissues.