
Australian Veterinary Practitioner
Published by: Australian Veterinary AssociationElectronic ISSN: 0310 - 138X
The Australian Veterinary Practitioner is the official journal of the Australian Small Animal Veterinarians. The AVP is an independently refereed clinical journal, published four times per year to further the clinical and educational interests of veterinary practitioners and students throughout Australia.
The AVP is abstracted by: Biological Abstracts; CAB International; Current Contents (Agriculture etc); First Move – Veterinary Librarian; Index Veterinarius; Science Citation Index; Small Animal Practice; Veterinary Bulletin; Veterinary Reference Service; VIN.
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Volume 55 ( 2025 )
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Issue 1 ( Mar )
Volume 54 ( 2024 )
Issue 4 ( Dec )
Issue 3 ( Sep )
Issue 2 ( Jun )
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Volume 53 ( 2023 )
Issue 5 ( Dec )
Issue 4 ( Oct )
Issue 3 ( Jul )
Issue 2 ( May )
Issue 1 ( Mar )
Volume 52 ( 2022 )
Issue 3 ( Sep )
Issue 2 ( Jun )
Issue 1 ( Mar )
Volume 51 ( 2021 )
Issue 4 ( Dec )
Issue 3 ( Sep )
Issue 2 ( Jun )
Issue 1 ( Mar )
Volume 50 ( 2020 )
Issue 4 ( Dec )
Issue 3 ( Sep )
Issue 2 ( Jun )
Issue 1 ( Mar )
Volume 49 ( 2019 )
Issue 4 ( Dec )
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Articles
- Australian Veterinary Practitioner Volume 53, Issue 1 - Full publication
- Australian Veterinary Practitioner Volume 53, Issue 2 - Full publication
- Australian Veterinary Practitioner Volume 53, Issue 3 - Full publication
- Australian Veterinary Practitioner Volume 53, Issue 4 - Full publication
- Australian Veterinary Practitioner Volume 53, Issue 5 - Full publication
- Australian Veterinary Practitioner Volume 54, Issue 1 - Full publication
- Australian Veterinary Practitioner Volume 54, Issue 2 - Full publication
- Australian Veterinary Practitioner Volume 54, Issue 3 - Full publication
- Australian Veterinary Practitioner Volume 54, Issue 4 - Full publication
- Australian Veterinary Practitioner Volume 55, Issue 1 - Full publication
- Australian Veterinary Practitioner Volume 55, Issue 2 - Full publication
- Consensus Statement on Life Stage Diagnostic Health Screenings for Dogs and Cats
- Message from the Editor
- Acute manifestation of a rare congenital right-sided pleuroperitoneal hernia after a high-altitude flight
- What is your diagnosis?
- Message from the Editor
- Message from the Editor
- Around the journals...
- Bacterial endophthalmitis secondary to pyelonephritis in a cat
- Surgical management of bilateral semitendinosus fibrotic myopathy and cranial cruciate ligament disease in a German Shepherd Dog
- Emerging News
- Pericardial effusion caused by Feline Infectious Peritonitis in a cat
- Recurrent tension pneumothorax during herniorrhaphy in a dog with concurrent peritoneopericardial diaphragmatic hernia and pleuropericardial hernia
- About our contributors
- Adverse drug reactions and drug-drug interactions of behavioral medications
- An auto-penetrating wound resulting in delayed bilothorax
- Paecilomycosis in two Australian dogs
- Vascular transformation of a serosal lymph node in a cat
- Disseminated intravascular coagulation following stereotactic radiotherapy of a nasal tumour in a Labrador retriever
- Gastric ulceration associated with Nakaseomyces glabrata (formerly Candida glabrata) in a cat with Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP)
- Pyothorax and pulmonary lymphomatoid granulomatosis in a cat
- Review of CBD for treatment of OA in dogs
- Treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius surgical site infection with linezolid in a Great Dane
- Adverse events associated with cerebellomedullary cistern cerebrospinal fluid collection in 150 dogs with suspected intracranial disease: a retrospective case series
- Impact of short-acting behavior medications on clinical testing
- Management of sleep disordered breathing in a dog using continuous positive airway pressure
- Development of ulcerative footpad lesions following free doxorubicin chemotherapy in a cat
- Metastatic Sertoli cell tumour in a dog treated with surgery, and metronomic cyclophosphamide and toceranib phosphate
- Intramedullary spinal cryptococcoma lesion in a dog diagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging, cerebrospinal fluid cytology and real-time PCR assay
- Abstracts
- Anaesthetic considerations for aggressive dogs
- Laparoscopic cryptorchidectomy in two dogs with testicular torsion
- Procedural sedation and stress reduction of cats in the hospital environment
- What is Your Diagnosis? The answer and some more questions
- In vivo diagnosis of Toxoplasma gondii myocarditis in a cat
- Serum Symmetric dimethylarginine (SDMA) concentrations in a population of dogs with multicentric large B cell lymphoma
- Care and husbandry of sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps)
- Management of a skin wound associated with use of an electronic anti-barking collar in a dog
- Renal salvage following traumatic herniation of the kidney in a dog
- Editorial
- How to identify the most likely neurological diagnosis without MRI or CT
- Partial carpal arthrodesis for a case of ectrodactyly in a 10-month-old Samoyed
- Anaesthesia guidelines for dogs and cats
- Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma, trichoblastoma and trichoepithelioma in dogs from a tropical region: potential implications of sun exposure
- Message from the Editor
- Persistent vaginal haemorrhage in a dog with an ovarian bursal abscess
- Around the Journals
- Congenital keratoconjunctivitis sicca and ichthyosiform dermatosis in a Cavalier King Charles spaniel with a single defective copy of the FAM83H gene
- Abstracts
- Acute-phase proteins in small animals
- Advertorial: Neptra - A Single-Dose Solution for Canine Otitis Externa
- More than seizures - behavioural comorbidities in canine idiopathic epilepsy
- Nasopharyngeal obstruction resulting from formation of a nasopharyngeal membrane post staphylectomy with bipolar vessel sealing device in a brachycephalic dog
- Abstracts
- Plasma free metanephrines before and after adrenalectomy in a cat with phaeochromocytoma
- Abstracts
- Review of CBD as an adjunctive treatment for epilepsy in the Australian veterinary landscape - where are we currently and where are we going?
- Thrombocytopenia and hindlimb paraplegia in a Hungarian vizsla with right-to-left patent ductus arteriosus
- Non-neoplastic and neoplastic disorders linked to desexing in dogs
- Message from the Editor
- Pituitary surgery in dogs and cats: new options for common problems
- Pre- and postoperative computed tomography and reconstructive surgery for canine aural atresia
- Journal review AVP Issue 2, 2024
- Multiorgan reaction suspected in association with sulphonamide antimicrobial administration in a dog, a case report
- Guidelines for Authors
- Dried apricots causing food engorgement and gastric obstruction in a dog
- Abstracts
- Behavioural and/or neurological Night-time Waking and Restlessness
- Aortic stenosis secondary to suspected aortic sclerosis in a dog
- Monitoring of anaesthetised dogs and cats: Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia Chapter position statement
- A retrospective study of blunt trauma in dogs and cats: 167 cases
- A review of gastropexy in canine gastric dilatation-volvulus: Techniques, complications and outcomes
- Message from the Editor
- Nerve blocks: linchpin to dental pain
- Suspected immune mediated polyneuropathy as a secondary complication of elapid snake bite in a dog
- What is your diagnosis? Cytology from a tarsal mass
- Around the journals January-June 2023
- Rabbit and rodent dentistry: where to start?
- Chronic nasal disease in the dog: diagnosis and treatment
- Isorhythmic atrioventricular dissociation in a Shih-tzu dog
- Comparison of small animal general practitioners' and emergency veterinarians' behaviours and attitudes to the use of veterinary triage tools
- Abstracts
- Suspected anaphylaxis in a dog following administration of tiger-brown snake anti-venom
- Hot Dogs: Thermoregulatory function and dysfunction in the racing Greyhound (Canis familiaris) and the rationale for cooling strategies
- Morbidity and mortality in tawny frogmouths (Podargus strigoides) presented for veterinary care
- Surgical approach to nasolacrimal duct atresia in a German shepherd puppy
- Use of an acrylic trans-articular external skeletal fixator for joint immobilisation following multiligamentous stifle injury in 6 cats; technique description and outcomes
- Ventral approach for the placement of a toggle rod in two dogs with caudoventral hip luxation
- Primary digital chondrosarcoma with pulmonary metastasis in a dog
- Right stifle haemarthrosis as the primary presenting sign in a dog with splenic haemangiosarcoma
- Abdominal ultrasonographic findings and post mortem diagnosis of a haemocholecyst in a case of canine leptospirosis
- Suspected norepinephrine-associated skin slough in a dog with sepsis
- Message from the Editor
- Three cases of intersexuality in dogs
- What is your diagnosis? Biochemistry results from an ataxic cat
- Surgical repair of bilateral inguinal hernias in a bitch
- Urinary incontinence due to congenital prostatic urethral dilation in two dogs
- Comparison of the use of a bipolar vessel sealing device and conventional incisional techniques for staphylectomy in brachycephalic dogs
- Juvenile onset masticatory muscle myositis diagnosed in a 16-week-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy
- Osteosarcoma in a dog eight years after tibial plateau leveling osteotomy with an angle stable implant
- Supraventricular tachycardia following iohexol administration in an anaesthetised dog with a large jugular thrombus created by an artificial pacemaker
- Surgical decompression of a caudal vertebral disc extrusion in a dog, without dorsal laminectomy or foraminotomy
- Abstracts
- Persistent left cranial vena cava and absent right cranial vena cava in a German shepherd dog with multiple congenital cardiovascular defects
- Pulse oximetry and venous blood gas analysis of 119 dogs diagnosed with the paralysis tick Ixodes holocyclus
- Abnormal salivation in a dog with a malignant nerve sheath neoplasm involving the glossopharyngeal nerve
- Abstracts
- Message from the Editor
- Disseminated fungal disease in a German shepherd: some take home points for diagnosis and management
- What the devil happened to feline leukaemia virus (FeLV) infection in Australia?
- Splenic sarcoma and carcinoma collision tumour in a dog
- Abstracts
- Progressive dyspnoea in a kitten 2 days after ovariohysterectomy
- Dietary management for gastrointestinal surgery
- Editorial: A few last words from this editor
- Abstracts
- Gastric dilatation-volvulus in dogs: A review of the literature from 2000-2020
- Grain free diets for dogs: What every veterinarian should know
- Practical management of diabetes in cats
- Critical appraisal of medical and dietary treatments of proteinuria in dogs and cats
- Raw food diets: Facts, philosophy, and fallacy
- Assessment of cross-linked polydimethylsiloxane urethral bulking agent in young dogs with urethral sphincter mechanism incompetence
- Advertorial: Your Handy Guide to Diagnostics in Canine OE
- Minimally invasive plate osteosynthesis of diaphyseal humeral fractures using a lateral plate-rod application in dogs and cats: 11 cases (2007-2021)
- How to approach a cat with a gastrointestinal mass
- Digital flexor tenotomy for the treatment of digital pad corns in sighthounds
- Remote tocodynamometry monitoring using WiFi to support veterinarians in home-based obstetrical management
- Message from the Editor
- Around the journals
- Circular external fixator assisted interlocking nail stabilisation of a comminuted tibial fracture in a dog
- Improving hand hygiene in small animal veterinary practice: A pilot trial
- Proposed novel ductal plate malformation in the liver of a young golden retriever
- Desexing: Making sense of the literature and conversations with clients
- Tooth aspiration during intubation in a cat
- Accidental cutting of a misplaced temperature probe during lung lobectomy in a dog
- Suspected oesophageal adenocarcinoma associated with Barrett's oesophagus in a brachycephalic dog with chronic gastroesophageal reflux
- Acute respiratory distress in a 21-year-old southern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons): diagnostic imaging and pathology findings
- Diaphragmatic eventration in a kitten and subsequent surgical intervention
- Intravenous lipid emulsion therapy in meth/amphetamine toxicosis of two dogs
- Post-retinal blindness as the sole clinical sign of intracranial neoplasia in two dogs
- Message from the Editor
- Non-ambulatory tetraparesis due to paraspinal abscessation and spinal epidural empyema caused by Streptococcus canis in Australia: a case report
- What is your diagnosis?
- Abstracts
- Prevalence of adverse events following lumbar collection of cerebrospinal fluid in cats: 25 cases (2012-2019)
- Around the journals July-December 2023
- Management of devastating facial gunshot injuries in an English cocker spaniel
- Primary Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum, Pneumothorax and Subcutaneous Emphysema in a Cat with Urethral Obstruction
- Abstracts
- Abstracts
- Abstracts
- Spontaneous resolution of a postoperative pharyngocutaneous fistula in a dog following repair of traumatic laryngeal avulsion
- Clavulanate and cephalosporins: what is the cost of convenience?
- Appropriateness of empirical antimicrobial therapy for the treatment of septic peritonitis in dogs and its impact on survival
- Computed tomography findings and surgical management of acute oropharyngeal stick injuries in dogs
- Nutritional requirements of racing greyhounds: a review
- An uncharacteristically aggressive subcutaneous mast cell tumour with intra-articular invasion in a dog
- Partial foot amputation and digit centralisation in a dog
- Thyroid storm signs in a dog with an ectopic thyroid tumour
- Treatment of a distal tibial angular limb deformity using computer and stereolithography assisted pre-operative planning and a tibial plateau levelling osteotomy locking compression plate in a novel fashion
- Autologous blood pleurodesis ("blood patch") as a treatment for traumatic pneumothorax in a cat
- Technical challenges for sequential surgical failures of a patellar ligament rupture in a German shepherd dog
- Abstracts