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CALCOLI ALL'APPARATO URINARIO  / CANINE STONE FORMING

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BULLETIN From:     Study Group on Urinary Stones  Health & Research Committee Dalmatian Club of America, Inc. For more information, contact: Carroll H. Weiss 8290 N.W. 26th Place Sunrise, FL 33322-2951 U.S.A. Telephone / Fax : (area 954) 741-5560 E-mail: carroll@suntech.net    For Immediate Release New Definitive Textbook on Canine Stone-Forming Published & Now Available An excellent, brand new textbook on canine urinary stone-forming became available in January 1999. Any owner of a stone-forming Dalmatian should urge their veterinarian to obtain a copy of this splendid authority for their reference library if not already there. The series of 18 articles are based on 77,000 canine stones. They teach state-of-the-art diagnosis, drugs, diagnostic methods of x-rays, methods of prevention and other critical subjects required for successful treatment of all aspects of canine stone-forming. Twenty-five years of experience with non-surgical methods of treatment are reviewed and current methods for success, including unavoidable surgery, are described. Individual chapters are devoted - each - to specific types of urinary stones including one chapter exclusively on the most common one found in Dalmatians, the purines. Other chapters are devoted to recent advances such as modern methods of breaking up stones when formed in difficult and more serious anatomical sites like the kidneys.  The textbook represents the unrivaled experience in diagnosing, treating and preventing stone-forming by the Minnesota Urolith Center of the U. Minnesota School of Veterinary Medicine, perhaps the foremost world authority on this specific health problem in animals. Ordering details are as follows: THE VETERINARY CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA January 1999 Volume: "The ROCKet Science of Canine Urolithiasis" In Europe, order by calling London, England telephone: 0181-300-3322 or London fax: 0181-309-0807 Addendum: The chapter on urate urolithiasis is written by one of the three co-editors, Joseph Bartges DVM, PhD, who presented the 1992 annual DCA Education Seminar - and who mentions in his published chapter the DCA website and the series of teaching articles there.                (End, April 1999 bulletin)

BULLETIN From:     Study Group on Urinary Stones  Health & Research Committee, Dalmatian Club of America For more information, contact: Carroll H. Weiss, Director 8290 N.W. 26th Place Sunrise, FL 33322-2951 USA   Telephone / Fax : (area 954) 741-5560    E-mail: carroll@suntech.net    For Immediate Release Textbook Cautions Against Use of Bicarbonate-of-Soda For decades, sodium bicarbonate has been known and used by Dalmatian fanciers when their dogs have been confirmed with abnormal urate urinary crystals/stones. It now appears that it may worsen and complicate the dog's urate stone-forming. According to the Dalmatian chapter in the latest and most definitive teaching textbook for veterinarians on canine stone-forming: "Because sodium may combine with uric acid to form sodium urate, potassium citrate may be preferable to sodium bicarbonate as a urine alkalinizing agent." Why some Dalmatians become overt stone-formers while others including littermates do not, is unknown but unfortunately all Dalmatians are born with the potential urinary problem for urates. Sodium urate is only one type of urate but all urates are characterized as thriving in an abnormally acidic urine. Therefore, one component of treatment and prevention is to reverse that abnormal acidity by attempting to neutralize it with alkalinizing chemicals such as potassium citrate. This should be started only by consulting with your veterinarian. The DCA Study Group is very impressed with the vast spectrum of state-of-the-art knowledge in the new textbook for treatment and prevention of canine stone-forming. We urge all owners of afflicted dogs to question if their vet's reference library has acquired it. Ordering details are as follows: THE VETERINARY CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA January 1999 Volume: "The ROCKet Science of Canine Urolithiasis" In U.S., order by calling toll free: 1-800-654-2452 In Canada, order by calling toll free: 1-800-387-7278 (End, September 1999 bulletin)

BULLETIN From:     Study Group on Urinary Stones Research Committee of the Dalmatian Club of America, Inc. For more information, contact: Carroll H. Weiss 8290 N.W. 26th Place Sunrise, FL 33322-2951 USA Telephone / Fax : (area 954) 741-5560  E-mail: carroll@suntech.net     For Immediate Release New Articles - plus - Computer Access Changed for Dalmatian Stone-Forming Information on the Internet Computer pathways to definitive articles on urinary stone-forming in Dalmatians have been changed, effective immediately. Previous URLs are no longer operational and any owner or breeder who has a computer and is familiar with the cyberspace of the Internet will receive error messages if those outdated ones are used. The new Internet "addresses," including several brand new articles, are as follows and have been restored through the generosity and yeoman work of Brooks Holland, DCA member and Dalmatian breeder: "Urinary Stone-Forming in Dalmatians and Other Dogs:" http://www.thedca.org/dal_book.htm "General Preventatives for Stone-Forming Dalmatians" http://www.thedca.org/genlprev.htm "Emergency Procedures for Obstructed Stone-Forming Dalmatians" http://www.thedca.org/emergency.htm "Fallacy of 'Low Protein' vs. 'High Protein' in Stone-Formers' Diets" http://www.thedca.org/fallacy.htm Tabulation of Purine-Yielding Foods http://www.thedca.org/purines.htm DCA Teaching Seminar by Joseph Bartges, DVM, PhD http://www.thedca.org/seminar.htm   "Dipsticking to Monitor Stone-Forming Dalmatians" http://www.thedca.org/dipstick.htm (End, July 1996 Bulletin)

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