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| Education and Resources |
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| Specimen collection instructions |
Once we receive a completed testing agreement from your facility,
VDxI will send you all the supplies required for sending specimens to
our specialty laboratory. Please click on the video to review the
contents of your supply box and to observe the important specimen,
storage and shipping instructions.
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| Heart Disease |
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Heart disease is common in dogs and cats. Up to 15% of younger dogs
have heart disease.1,2 The risk of heart disease increases
dramatically with age; 60% of dogs may have heart disease. 1,2 With an
aging population the incidence of heart disease will continue to
increase. For cats, heart disease is often a "silent" killer and
therefore may go undiagnosed until it is too late. The exact rate of
heart disease in...
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| Infection |
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The diagnosis of clinically important infections in dogs (as in
sepsis ) is a complex condition that is difficult to define, diagnose
and treat. It is a range of clinical conditions caused by the
body's systemic response to an infection, which if it develops
into severe sepsis is accompanied by single or multiple organ
dysfunction or failure leading to death. An accurate diagnosis and
rapid patient management...
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| Cancer |
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Veterinary oncology, the study and treatment of cancer in companion
animals, has become a growing practice in recent years. Prior to the
past decade, veterinary options for therapeutic management of cancer
in the dog were limited, and prognosis for such patients was often
dismal. Today, new combinations of drugs (chemotherapy), improvements
in surgical techniques for removing tumors, radiation therapy, and
novel...
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