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CLINICAL CONNECTIONS
RVC Clinical Services Newsletter Autumn 2022
CANINE PERICARDIAL EFFUSION BIOBANK
FOR DIAGNOSTIC ADVANCEMENTS
he RVC is compiling a biobank of Pericardial effusion is a life-threatening opportunity exists for samples to be
fluids removed from around the heart, condition that requires emergency collected and tested further in a laboratory
T enabling pioneering research aimed stabilisation. Neoplasia is the underlying to try to determine if the fluid is neoplastic or
at developing new diagnostic tests to help cause in approximately two thirds of cases, not. This initiative, to store samples in novel
dogs at the RVC and beyond. It appears with the diagnosis of neoplasia of the heart ways for use in future studies, will involve
to be the first such biobank of pericardial reliant on echocardiography or computed the Emergency and Critical Care team,
effusion (PE) samples in dogs globally. tomography to look for a mass. However, clinical and anatomic pathology specialists,
Between the busy first opinion out-of-hours even then, a specific diagnosis may not specialist technicians and the Clinical
emergency service and the Emergency and be possible. Furthermore, many vets do Investigation Centre.
Critical Care referral service at the Queen not have the facilities to perform advanced
Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA), imaging or may not have the option of Diagnostic advancements and
around 30 dogs with PE are presented per referral to a tertiary hospital, therefore the biomarkers
year. The emergency services are therefore diagnosis is often challenging. New, innovative techniques not yet applied
in an excellent position to compile the As the PE fluid needs to be drained to this type of sample will be employed,
biobank, using fresh PE samples. emergently as part of treatment, an excellent including the preparation of a 鈥榗ell block鈥� from
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