Sentences with phrase «heartworm diagnosis»

The latest survey focused on heartworm diagnoses in 2010, representing data from more than 5,000 veterinary clinics across the country on clinic testing and heartworm - positive dogs and cats.

Rather, our veterinarians employ a battery of tests in order to determine a cat heartworm diagnosis.

These key points are included in the revised canine and feline guidelines on heartworm diagnosis, prevention and management.

Rather, our veterinarians employ a battery of lab tests in order to determine a cat heartworm diagnosis.

The mission of the American Heartworm Society is to further the scientific progress in the study of heartworm disease, and to encourage and promote effective procedures for heartworm diagnosis, treatment and prevention, in order to contribute to a better understanding of this debilitating disease.

These videos produced by the American Heartworm Society help you communicate the importance of early heartworm diagnosis and prevention.

Although the number of cases here reported is limited and statistical analysis is not possible, the results of the present study show that difficulties in heartworm diagnosis in non-endemic area may be due not only to the unfamiliarity of clinicians with the disease but, also, to false sero - negative diagnostic test results, apparently due to low number of adults nematodes carried by every infected dog.

Blood Tests Several blood tests are used for heartworm diagnosis, but the heartworm antibody test and the heartworm antigen test are proving to be most helpful in diagnosing the disease in cats.

Unfortunately, this is not true, and we've seen a steady increase in heartworm diagnoses in Washinton and Multnomah counties in the last few years.

Perhaps the saddest part of a Heartworms diagnosis is the fact that this devastating disease is entirely preventable.

The only advantage of the Knotts technique is that it is rapid and inexpensive and, (only when positive) sufficient to make a heartworm diagnosis.