The official account for JAVMA, a peer-reviewed, scientific journal published monthly online and in print by the AVMA (@AVMAvets)
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Have you seen the March JAVMA cover art? 🎨
“Phoenix Bison Skull” (24 in x 26 in; bone and glass seed beads) was created by Dr. Christine Hardy in 2024.
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Oral trazodone, given alone or with gabapentin, may help reduce stress-related behaviors in dogs during veterinary visits and procedures. Learn more: jav.ma/gabatraz
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Patients colonized with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales can silently spread it to others and are at higher risk of developing a serious infection themselves. 💊🐕🐈
Learn more: jav.ma/CRE
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Electrochemotherapy was feasible, safe, and effective for prolonged local control of mammary adenocarcinoma in an Asian elephant, supporting its potential role when conventional modalities aren’t an option. 🐘 Open access article: jav.ma/elephant3
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Adoptive T-cell therapy was well tolerated, and while survival outcomes varied, a subset of dogs achieved prolonged survival. Open access article: jav.ma/actchop
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Penetrating thoracic trauma is often more severe than routine imaging and examination suggest. Higher animal trauma triage scores were associated with nonsurvival, so close postoperative monitoring is essential. Learn more: jav.ma/att1
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In cats with vertebral fractures or luxations, surgery is an effective option when there is spinal instability or cord compression, provided nociception is intact. 🐈 Learn more: jav.ma/spinalfx
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Novel serum musculoskeletal biomarkers show promise as indicators of altered bone remodeling. If confirmed in prospective studies, monitoring them could prompt timely clinical examination and advanced imaging, before serious musculoskeletal injury occurs: jav.ma/msktb
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In healthy horses, a novel water additive led to significant and consistent improvements in voluntary water intake compared with both water flavored with sweet feed and plain water. Open access article: jav.ma/vwi
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Limited lab access in the field? 🐴 Serum amyloid A can be a practical addition to preanesthetic screening, used alone or with other systemic inflammatory markers. Open access article: jav.ma/saa1 @pennvet
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Consumer polyacrylamide-based hydrogel products can contain variable levels of residual acrylamide monomer, a neurotoxin, making them a potentially life-threatening source of toxicosis. Open access article: jav.ma/polyacrylamide
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A new Viewpoint draws on 15 years and ~350 students trained through FARVets International to make the case for international service-learning as an essential, underrepresented part of veterinary education. Learn more: jav.ma/farvets @cornellvet
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Clinicians can reliably tell nasopharyngeal from laryngopharyngeal collapse, with strong intra- and interrater agreement. Classifying by functional anatomy may reveal what really drives pharyngeal collapse. 🐎 Open access: jav.ma/npclpc
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It's "What Is Your Diagnosis?" Wednesday! What are your differential diagnoses for a 6-year-old female mixed-breed dog that was presented with a 1-week history of intense sialorrhea and regurgitation of tubular-shaped undigested food? 🐕 Full case: jav.ma/regurg
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Discover the key priorities for a unified approach to veterinary well-being from the inaugural Veterinary Wellbeing Collective roundtable. Open access article: jav.ma/wellbeing1 @MerckAH
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Antibiograms suggest folate-pathway inhibitors, or high-exposure IV amoxicillin–clavulanic acid where available, are effective, stewardship-friendly empiric choices for perioperative pyometra treatment while awaiting susceptibility results. 🐕 jav.ma/antibiogram3
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Electrochemotherapy delivered strong local control in canine oral tumors, preserving tongue function and, with surgery, tackling larger masses, but metastasis in tonsillar cases shows multimodal treatment remains key. 🐕🐈 Open access article: jav.ma/ECT
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Until there is practical guidance on the clinical impact of common radiographic findings, clinicians should weigh the costs and risks of routine radiographs against how likely they are to change case management. Open access article: jav.ma/eightweek
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Regional antibiograms may reveal lower susceptibility than historical recommendations suggest. Empiric antimicrobial choices should be guided by stewardship principles, not routine reliance on any single drug. 💊 Open access article: jav.ma/antibiogram2
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A pooled estimate sets a baseline for evaluating new single and bundled interventions, including triclosan-coated suture, to reduce surgical site infections after TPLO. Open access article: jav.ma/triclosan
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It's "What Is Your Diagnosis?" Wednesday! What are your differential diagnoses for a 6-year-old castrated male domestic shorthair cat living in North Carolina that became acutely lethargic, tachypneic, and anorexic? 🐈 Full case: jav.ma/neurocat
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