Pet Owner Educational Atlas: Diagnosis in Dermatology (2nd edition)

The second edition of this book focusing on diagnosis in dermatology is intended to help the veterinarian communicate with pet owners and expands on the content of the first edition with 16 new sheets. The content of the previous edition has also been reviewed and updated as applicable, based on new developments in this specialisation.

Review and texts:

Carmen Lorente Méndez

Degree and PhD in veterinary medicine from the Complutense University of Madrid (1988 and 2005, respectively). EBVSR European specialist in veterinary dermatology. Diploma in dermatology from the European College of Veterinary Dermatology (ECVD). She started her professional career by founding the Cercedilla veterinary clinic in 1989, where she worked until 2002. In 2000, she moved to Valencia to take up a professorship at the CEU Cardenal Herrera University Veterinary School and to run the dermatology department of the university’s veterinary hospital. In 2007, she returned to Madrid and opened the Adervet Veterinary Dermatology Centre, which she still runs today. Between 2007 and 2009, she combined her work at Adervet with leading the internal medicine and dermatology departments at Alfonso X el Sabio University Veterinary Clinical Hospital.

She has worked as a consultant for several pharmaceutical laboratories and as a der- matopathologist at various laboratories. She currently combines her clinical work and her work as director of Adervet with her position as an international dermatology consultant at Laboklin.

She is a full member of the European Society of Veterinary Dermatology (ESVD) and a member of the International Society of Veterinary Dermatopathology (ISVD), the European College of Veterinary Dermatology (ECVD), the Madrid Pet Animal Veterinary Association (AMVAC) and the Spanish Small Animal Veterinary Association (AVEPA). She is a mem- ber of the scientific committee of AMVAC and the dermatology specialist group of AVEPA (GEDA).

She has spoken at various conferences, courses, symposiums, seminars and practical workshops and has written many publications, both nationally and internationally.

 Table of contents:

1. Structure and function

  Follicular cycle

  Defence mechanisms of the skin

  The skin as an indicator of health status

  The external auditory canal

  The skin barrier

2. Diagnostic tests

  Skin scrapings

  Trichogram

  Skin surface cytology

  Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology

  Culture of dermatophytes

  Bacterial culture and sensitivity tests

  Skin biopsy

  Ear examination

  Food and environmental allergen tests

3. Clinical manifestations and pathological processes

  Pyoderma

  Pyoderma

  Different clinical presentations of pyoderma

  Antibiotic treatment of pyoderma

  Other processes that cause pustules

  Pruritus

  Skin diseases that cause pruritus

  Diagnostic protocol for allergic triad: flea allergy dermatitis

  Diagnostic protocol for allergic triad: food allergy

  Diagnostic protocol for allergic triad: atopic dermatitis

  Chronic pruritus: hyperpigmentation, acanthosis

  Acral dermatitis or lick granuloma

  Alopecia

  Types of alopecia and diagnostic plan

  Noninflammatory alopecia

  Follicular dysplasias

  Ischaemic skin diseases

  Scarring alopecia and telogen effluvium

  Feline symmetrical alopecia

  Alopecia and skin atrophy secondary to topical corticosteroid treatment

  Cyclic flank alopecia

  Post-clipping and traction alopecia

  Patterns baldness

  Hypothyroidism

  Spontaneous hyperadrenocorticism

  Erosions and ulcers

  Trauma-induced erosions and ulcers

  Immune-mediated diseases

  Diseases with erosive and ulcerative lesions

  Feline idiopathic ulcerative dermatitis

  Feline viral infections

  Feline eosinophilic granuloma complex

  Keratoseborrhoeic disorders

  Seborrhoea

  Nasodigital hyperkeratosis

  Ear margin seborrhoea

  Schnauzer comedo syndrome

  Sebaceous adenitis

  Calluses and callus pyoderma

  Canine and feline acne

  Zinc-responsive dermatitis

  Pigmentation disorders

  Diseases associated with skin depigmentation

  Skin hyperpigmentation

  Nodules and tumours

  Inflammation

  Benign cutaneous neoplasms

  Malignant cutaneous neoplasms

  Miscellaneous

  Feline paraneoplastic diseases

  Canine paraneoplastic diseases

  Skinfold dermatitis or intertrigo

  Canine oral papillomatosis

  Shar pei mucinosis

  Surgical treatment of abscesses

  Otitis externa

  Causes and risk factors of otitis externa

  Pododermatitis

4. Therapy

  Shampoo therapy

  Controlling pruritus

  Long-acting antibiotics

  Treatment of atopic dermatitis

  Referral to the dermatologist