“Triaditis” is a common diagnosis in the cat, and yet, there is a paucity of literature documenting the existence of this disease as a distinct clinical entity. There are however a plethora of studies describing the separate components of this disease. Indeed post mortem studies describing cholangitis in the cat have documented concurrent IBD in 83% and 50% of cases, pancreatitis in 50% and 60% of cases and both in 39% and 32% of cases. Furthermore, those describing pancreatitis have shown an increased pancreatic score (a measure of pancreatic inflammation) in cats with GI disease (including liver disease) compared to healthy animals. Recently, a clinical case series has documented concomitant small bowel IBD, cholangitis and pancreatiis in 30% (10/33) cats undergoing exploratory coeliotomy; concomitant small bowel IBD and cholangitis in 30% of cases, and pancreatic and GI inflammation in 12% of cases. Taken together, there seems little doubt that cats have a tendency to succumb to 2 or more of these entities; so what are we missing and why are there no clinical studies of cats with Triaditis? This webinar will discuss the clinical syndrome and clinical signs, what is known and what we have yet to learn.

This is a unique and less common disease in which the body’s own immune system turns on itself – in this case, components of the skin. We will discuss this disease in two broad categories, namely those diseases that are vesicular or pustular in nature and those diseases that are not characterised be vesicles or pustules. We will spend most of our discussion time on the most common aspects of this disease.

Neuroanatomy and neurophysiology may repel at first. Most veterinary students and some veterinary practitioners are indeed uncomfortable with their neurology knowledge. This definitely has to do with the complexity of the nervous system anatomy and the immense diversity of structures and interactions that are involved in its functions. It is indeed a complex machinery that is in charge of not less than vision, smell, audition, balance, generating and adjusting gaits and postures, basic and more complex behaviours and things as trivial as urination or defecation. The brain is in fact commanding pretty much every function in the animal’s body. In fact most of the pathways and apparently complicated structures of the nervous systems can be grouped and understood based on their common functions. This functional knowledge of the nervous system is utterly interesting and leads to the simple understanding of lesion localisation within the nervous system. This webinar presents aspects of the functional neuroanatomy and physiology of the nervous system of dogs and cats and illustrate this information throughout clinical cases.