Evaluation of leukocytosis, bacteremia, and portal vein partial oxygen tension in clinically normal dogs and dogs with portosystemic shunts

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 211, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 715-718

  Swalec Tobias, Karen M ^a   Besser, Thomas E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DOG; DOG DISEASE; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LIVER; OXYGEN; PORTAL SYSTEM; PORTAL VEIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURVIVAL RATE; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 0031571763     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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