Photo by Amber Duff.
It’s been a long time coming, but we’re delighted to report that the Holter project has begun! We have already started to monitor dogs and are booking dogs now for the fall.
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Research
Photo by Katrina Richardson.
Our research is still being impacted by COVID. Many projects continue to be delayed. But we have made a bit of progress on some fronts.
Photo by Verena von Eichborn, who passed away last week and whose photos will be greatly missed on this website.
Below are a couple of articles from the fall on new developments in diet-associated dilated cardiomyopathy.
All photos by Marjan de Raad-Hemminga.
Even though it is not a test for a genetic disease, Deerhounds do have a new genetic test available: for the recessive mutation that causes hairlessness in our breed.
Photo by Katybeth.
The bleeding issues pages have been updated. Read more
Photo by Heather Hart.
Dr. Michael’s Court 2021 National Specialty health seminar presentation as well as a written summary.
Photo by Louise Laing
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.
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Photo by Verena von Eichborn
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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Dr. Court has just published a paper identifying what he believes is the main mutation (CYP2B11-H3) that causes slow drug metabolism in Greyhounds, and he has found that Deerhounds have the same mutation. Although he still has some work to do to confirm this, this is very exciting news for us.
This article is the latest information in exciting research that looks like it is finally cracking the mystery of gastric dilatation-volvulus (gastric torsion/bloat), at least in Great Danes.