This two-day practical course covers the diagnosis of chronic enteropathy, including differentials, types, and appropriate investigations like biomarkers and biopsies. The course also address the management of chronic enteropathies through dietary management, immunosuppressive therapy, and microbiota modulating therapies, as well as the unique challenges of specific conditions. Finally, the basics of flexible endoscopy for GI investigation and intervention are explained, focusing on equipment handling, foreign body removal, and biopsy techniques.
Course Schedule:
1 Day
Lecture 1 – Clinical approach to GI diseases in pets.
Lecture 2 – Approach to chronic enteropathies in pets: Investigations
Lecture 3 – Approach to chronic enteropathies in pets: Management
Lecture 4 – Feline enteropathies
Practicals
▪ Case based learning
• Feline cases
• Eosinophilic enteropathy
• Granulomatous colitis
▪ Royal Canin GI model
• Flexible scoping
• Foreign body removal
2 Day
Lecture 5 – Specificities of Protein Losing Enteropathy
Lecture 6 – Microbiome in gut health and disease and microbiota
modulation strategies
Lecture 7 – Approach to the regurgitating dog
Lecture 8 – Feeding tubes: When? Which? How? Complications?
Practicals:
▪ Cadaver endoscopy:
• Biopsy taking
• Inflation
• Oesophagoscopy
• Colonoscopy
▪ Feeding tube
• NG/NO
• Oseophagostomy
• PEG
Price: (without VAT)
Early bird: to 06.09.2025 – €1090
Regular price: from 07.09.2025 to 08.01.2026 – €1210
Last chance: after 09.01.2026 – €1280
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