Veterinary clinical nutrition: success stories: an overview.
In this overview of success stories in veterinary clinical nutrition topics in cats and dogs reviewed include the dietary management of chronic kidney disease, dissolution of urinary tract uroliths by dietary modification, the recognition that taurine and L-carnitine deficiencies can cause dilated cardiomyopathy; that clinical signs associated with feline hyperthyroidism (caused by a benign adenoma) can be controlled by a low-iodine diet alone; that dietary management of canine osteoarthritis can also reduce non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug doses; and that disease-free intervals and survival times can be statistically longer in dogs with Stage III lymphoma managed with diet. As we discover more about nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics, and as we expand our basic understanding of idiopathic diseases we are bound to identify more nutritionally related causes, and be able to develop novel dietary strategies to manage disease processes, including the formulation of diets designed to alter gene expression to obtain beneficial clinical outcomes.
School of Veterinary Medicine and Science,University of Nottingham,Sutton Bonington Campus,Loughborough LE12 5RD,UK.
Mike
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Davies
D000824:Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D000818:Animals; D002137:Calculi / Q000178:diet therapy; D009202:Cardiomyopathies / Q000150:complications / Q000178:diet therapy; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000178:diet therapy / Q000209:etiology; D002331:Carnitine / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000172:deficiency; D002415:Cats; D004032:Diet / Q000662:veterinary*; D004285:Dogs; D022124:Hyperammonemia / Q000150:complications / Q000178:diet therapy; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000150:complications / Q000178:diet therapy / Q000662:veterinary; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000178:diet therapy; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D051436:Renal Insufficiency, Chronic / Q000178:diet therapy; D013654:Taurine / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000172:deficiency
D013654:Taurine; D002331:Carnitine
Chronic kidney disease; Clinical nutrition; DCM dilated cardiomyopathy; Dilated cardiomyopathy; Hyperthyroidism