Feline cholangitis:
A necropsy study of 44 cats (1986 - 2008).
A large
necropsy study in Gainesville, Fla., found that 5 percent of cats had adult heartworms2, virtually the same incidence as FeLV and FIV infections.
Not exact matches
While the
study was designed to look at stranding trends and did not evaluate the causes,
necropsies on beached orcas have shown that they absorb extremely high loads of humanmade toxins, suffer from infectious diseases and, in the case of fish - eating populations, depend primarily on severely depleted salmon stocks.
She
studied agriculture for a year abroad at the University of Nairobi, Kenya before graduating from PSU in 1992 with a B.S. in Dairy & Animal Science, Audrey went on to be a Peace Corps livestock extension volunteer in Ecuador, milked cows in MA, and became the senior
necropsy technician at the PSU Animal Diagnostic Lab.
In a large retrospective
study of
necropsy findings 1.5 % of 9,342 canine and 1.3 % of 6,504 feline pancreata showed important pathological lesions.
A quarter of the dogs may be removed from the
study for «non-nutritional reasons» and data from the dogs removed from the trial does not need to be provided in the results (although dogs who die during the test do require a
necropsy and the findings are to be recorded).
Detailed
necropsies were performed on 12 of the affected Irish wolfhounds that were included in the
study.
Of the initial affected
study dogs all were clinically Affected first and all but one were confirmed as Affected via
necropsy.
There were approximately 20 ECS in the initial
study group and also blood / DNA was tested from several other Affected dogs who were not available for
necropsy.
She also assists in the performance of
necropsies to obtain tissue for genetic
studies.