Photo by Heather Hart.
Dr. Michael’s Court 2021 National Specialty health seminar presentation as well as a written summary.
SDCA Health and Genetics Committee
Photo by Heather Hart.
Dr. Michael’s Court 2021 National Specialty health seminar presentation as well as a written summary.
Photo by Rich Paice.
by John Dillberger, DVM, PhD
Reprinted from the March/April 2019 issue of The Claymore.
Using tranexamic acid to treat Delayed Bleeding Syndrome in Deerhounds.
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These videos of the 2019 National Specialty Health seminar, presented by veterinary geneticist Dr. Jerold Bell, is based on his analysis of a Scottish Deerhound computerized pedigree database, AKC registration statistics, and pedigree analysis of the most influential Scottish Deerhound dogs and bitches.
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John Dillberger, DVM, Ph.D., & Miranda Levin, ONB
Reprinted from the January/February 2021 issue of The Claymore.
Like everything else this year, our research was impacted by COVID. Many projects were delayed, but we did manage to make some progress on a few fronts.
Read moreWe have written about percutaneous coil embolization before; here is a first-hand report from the owner of a Deerhound who has undergone this procedure.
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The SDCA has supported the Canine Health Foundation’s Bloat Initiative for years. On March 24, a webinar covered much of what they have learned. If you missed it, Health & Genetics Committee member Mary Ann Rose, MD, wrote a summary of it below. If you want to listen to it yourself, the webinars are archived here.
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Although we list all available clinical trials on this website through the American Veterinary Medical Association’s Clinical Trials Database, we received a request from Mindy Quigley, Clinical Trials Coordinator, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine:
Read moreby Miranda Levin, Betty Stephenson, DVM, and John Dillberger, DVM, Ph.D.
The Health & Genetics Committee gets several emails like this a year, so we thought it would be helpful to post this article for owners and their veterinarians, many of whom might not have dealt with cystinuria before.
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We are thrilled to announce that the Scottish Deerhound Club of America’s Deerhound Health web site has been updated and moved to a self-hosted site — you can now find Deerhound Health at
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