This atlas shows Cardiology in a way it had never been done before. The images it contains, of both the healthy heart and the main heart diseases that affect dogs and cats, have a unique technical and artistic value.

Esta obra, aunque sencilla en formato, es un manual de consulta imprescindible para el veterinario especializado que quiera diagnosticar con precisión las patologías que afectan a la especie porcina. El libro expone con detalle todo el proceso diagnóstico, desde la toma de muestras y su envío hasta la interpretación genérica de los resultados, pasando por la descripción de las diversas técnicas laboratoriales básicas. La obra profundiza en el conocimiento de las diferentes patologías, expuestas por sistemas, de una manera muy visual mediante diagramas de flujo que guiarán al lector a través del proceso diagnóstico. Al final de cada capítulo se incluye un caso clínico con el que se pretende completar la información ofrecida. Este manual eminentemente práctico está diseñado para que el veterinario de campo pueda llevarlo consigo y consultarlo mientras ejerce la práctica diaria.

Esta obra nos habla del dolor en los animales de compañía y de cómo afecta éste a su bienestar, estado sanitario y, por supuesto, a su comportamiento. En ella se describen las dificultades encontradas, a lo largo de la historia, para que el hombre haya llegado a reconocer que los animales presentan los mismos mecanismos neurofisiológicos que los humanos para sentir el dolor y cuáles son estas vías sensitivas. Después se adentra en profundidad en los cambios que el dolor puede originar en el comportamiento de perros y gatos y en las herramientas de las que dispone el veterinario para controlarlo. La buena praxis veterinaria y la ética profesional nos llevan a reducir todo lo posible el dolor en los animales. Disponer de un libro como éste puede ayudar a conseguirlo.

The aim of this book is to provide the practitioner with the most recent and best evidence information about the infection of Coxiella burnetii (Cb), causative agent of Q fever, in ruminants. After a brief introduction to highlight the important aspects of the bacteriology of Cb, the epidemiology and the pathogenesis will be described to strengthen the key points in terms of further control strategies improvement, especially regarding prevalence and description of different putative shedding patterns. Then, the clinical course of the disease will be described and the impact of Cb on reproduction disorders will be detailed, based on an exhaustive review of the literature. The available diagnostic tools will be described and some diagnostic scheme will be provided to help the practitioner in routine practice. The final chapter of this book will be devoted to a review of the different available control strategies, both medical and non medical ones. A special focus will be made on the data, provided by recent studies, on the interest of the use of antibiotics and/or vaccination to reduce and prevent Coxiella burnetii shedding in ruminants. We hope that this book, resolutely practical, will help veterinarians and farmers to better control Coxiella burnetii infection.

This useful handbook describes in detail the entire process of diagnosis, collection and sending of samples to the laboratory, the interpretation of findings, and the description of the basic laboratory techniques. It goes deeper into the knowledge of the different swine pathologies and clearly exposes the different pathologies using flow charts that will guide veterinary surgeons through the diagnostic process. At the end of each chapter there is a clinical case that completes the information offered.

Graphic Handbook of Immunology and Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat is an innovative book that presents the fundamental aspects of basic immunology and the most important dog and cat infectious diseases in an illustrated and educational way. The accuracy of the contents, together with the detailed illustrations, will help the veterinarian to consolidate his or her knowledge on this subject. Also, the extensive teaching experience of the authors gives the piece a didactic and simple tone when treating some disciplines that have always been complex.

This atlas compiles clinical cases and images of pathological conditions. It will be very helpful for any vet needing to recognise macroscopical and microscopical lesions in sheep.

Veterinary oncology is a specialty that is advancing at a very fastpace. This allows clinicians to have more and more resources at their disposal to treat their patients and, at the same time, requires them to have an in-depth and constantly updated knowledge of the subject. In order to help veterinary surgeons in this task, this book, titled ?Oncology, from theory to practice?, describes in detail and in an educational and accessible manner the basic and modern knowledge in this discipline, always from a practical point of view. Together with the essential aspects and the latest advances in oncology, this book includes a chapter about the most common specific neoplasms in daily practice, their protocols and recommended treatments, as well as several real clinical cases through which readers will be able to evaluate their knowledge of the subject. A book to turn veterinary oncology into one more of the specialities offered in daily practice.

This Essential guide to calving is an accessible yet complete and exhaustive book which explores in depth the aspects related to calving in an educational and practical manner. In spite of having cows calving all year long on our farms, many of them do not receive the care they deserve, when this is in fact an event on which the performance and economy of the operation greatly depend. From the factors that predispose to dystocia (a problematic delivery), its prevention and the management of cows during gestation, as well as the physiological bases of calving and the problems we can encounter, to the management of the dam and calf during the postpartum period, this book addresses the most important issues in an easy manner and gives simple answers to the questions we may have.

El periparto puede considerarse como el momento más importante del ciclo productivo de una vaca. Las enfermedades o trastornos que aparecen durante este periodo no son sucesos independientes, sino que normalmente responden a la interacción de varios factores. En el libro ?El periparto de la vaca: apuntes prácticos? los autores hacen hincapié en la importancia de valorar las patologías del ganado vacuno como un todo, para que así el clínico consiga adelantarse a los problemas que puedan aparecer durante el preparto, el parto y el posparto de la vaca.