Glomerulopathy in the dog

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Geert Paes, DVM, Dip ECVIM-ca

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Course includes:

8 Lessons

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Clinical case

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Duration: 1 hour 30 min

CE Credits: 0 (No course credits)

This webinar aims to provide practicing veterinarians with a thorough understanding of glomerulopathy in dogs, a condition that affects the glomeruli of the kidneys. The glomeruli play a crucial role in filtering the blood and regulating the composition of urine. When the glomeruli become damaged, this can lead to impaired kidney function.

There are several causes of glomerulopathy, including genetic factors, immune-mediated diseases, infections, inflammation, and certain systemic disorders. Damage to the glomeruli can result in the loss of important proteins in the urine, leading to proteinuria. In addition, glomerulopathy may lead to hypertension (high blood pressure) and progressive deterioration of renal function.

In dogs, different forms of glomerulopathy can occur, including primary glomerulopathies, in which the kidneys are directly affected, and secondary glomerulopathies, which develop as a consequence of underlying diseases such as infections or immune-mediated disorders.

Using a clinical case as a starting point, this training will address questions such as:

What are the possible causes of proteinuria?
How can we determine whether an animal has a glomerular disease?
Which additional diagnostic tests are recommended in animals with suspected glomerulopathy?
When is a renal biopsy indicated, and what are the contraindications for performing a renal biopsy?
How should animals with glomerulopathy be treated?
When are immunosuppressive drugs indicated? Which immunosuppressive agents are recommended? What dosages should be used? How long should treatment be continued, and how should it be tapered?

The training lasts 1.5 hours and consists of several short videos of a prerecorded presentation. Participants will receive handouts of the complete lecture. You will also receive a practical protocol for monitoring animals treated with an ACE inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker.

Geert Paes, DVM, Dip ECVIM-ca

After graduating as a veterinarian in 2006 from the University of Ghent, Geert completed an internship and a residency in internal medicine of companion animals. Until 2012, she worked with great pleasure at the university in Ghent, while in her spare time she worked as a tour guide and met her Canadian husband. In 2012 she moved to Western Canada where she first worked for two years as a primary care veterinarian and in 2015 switched back to emergency and referral veterinary medicine. During her years in primary care veterinary medicine, she gained enormous respect for the work as a 'practice veterinarian' and also realizes that 'the ideal scenario' does not always exist and that we as veterinarians have to be flexible.

Geert has been a diplomate of the European college of veterinary internal medicine (ECVIM-ca) since 2017. She is (co)author of several scientific publications. Because Geert is passionate about teaching, she founded OVT in 2019 with the aim of supporting veterinarians and veterinary assistants as much as possible with accessible, high-quality and practically applicable training materials. In addition to working for OVT, she also works as a teleconsultant and as a specialist at Boundary Bay Veterinary Specialty Hospital in Surrey, Canada.