Clinical Highlights with AAHA’s Selected Endocrine Guidelines
This course will cover highlights and pearls of information from each of the major endocrinopathies covered in the new 2023 AAHA Selected Endocrine Guidelines. This presentation will review recommendations for diagnosis, treatment, or monitoring these common conditions which may present challenges to practitioners.These endocrinopathies can be overt or have minimal clinical impact, especially in early-stage disease. Diagnosis relies on a recognition of clinical signs or physical examination abnormalities, careful compilation of the patient’s history, interpretation of hormone concentration assays, and exclusion of comorbidities that can complicate an accurate diagnosis. Early intervention in endocrinopathy cases avoids the severe syndromes that can impact the patient’s quality of life and cause secondary organ damage and mortality. The guidelines are designed to provide practitioners with a practical, stepwise approach to the diagnosis and treatment of the four most common canine and feline endocrinopathies.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the limitations of total thyroxine concentrations in the diagnosis of hypothyroidism.
- Developing treatment & monitoring plans for hypothyroidism
- Describe hypercortisolism & hypocortisolism definitive diagnostics & options for treatment monitoring
- Highlight less traditional presentations of feline hyperthyroidism
- Review updated treatment recommendations for feline hyperthyroidism
- Identify symptoms, diagnostics, and treatment goals for hyperaldosteronism in cats
Continuing Education (CE):
RACE: #20-943545
Category: Medical
Hour(s): Veterinarians 1.0 ; Veterinary Technicians 1.0
*Approved CE credit hours for all state and provincial boards in United States & Canada via AAVSB*
AAHA Members: Free
Non-Members: Free