Cat owner aimed webinar: Feline Infectious Peritonitis – A new era in diagnosis and treatment (2021)
Overview
This webinar is aimed at cat owners
Until very recently, potential cases of Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP) made my heart sink. This heart-breaking disease is frustratingly difficult to diagnose, and when we get close to confirming a case, the disease was almost invariably fatal. That is still the case in most of the world unless you want to use illegal drugs where you really don’t know what they contain.However, in the UK (and Australia), we now have legal Remdesivir! This is a wonderful positive spin-out from the Covid pandemic. But this new treatment is not without more discomfort to the poor cat, and significant cost, so making the correct diagnosis is essential. This webinar will consider all of the current diagnostic options, plus their limitations, enabling participants to work with their vet to make pragmatic and realistic diagnostic plans. While discussing how best to use Remdesivir, the published data that support its use, unpublished findings, and legal considerations, we will also examine other treatment options, including interferon omega, polyprenyl immuno-stimulant, and 3C-like protease inhibitor (GC376), and their potential role in these cases.
Presenters
Professor Danièlle A. Gunn-Moore
BSc(Hon), BVM&S, PhD, MANZCVS (Feline), FHEA, FRSB, FRCVS, RCVS Specialist in Feline MedicineProfessor in Feline Medicine
Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies and The Roslin Institute
Danièlle Gunn-Moore graduated from the R(D)SVS, University of Edinburgh, with the Dick Vet Gold Medal in 1991. After a year in small animal practice she joined The Feline Centre, University of Bristol, initially as the Feline Advisory Bureau Scholar, then the Duphar Feline Fellow, and completed a PhD study into Feline Infectious Peritonitis in 1997. After a short period as Lecturer in Veterinary Pathology, University of Bristol, she returned to Edinburgh to establish the Feline Clinic and became Professor of Feline Medicine in 2006. She is interested in all aspects of feline medicine; she is an internationally recognised expert in her area, has lectured extensively and published over a 130 peer-reviewed research papers, plus many reviews and book chapters. In 2009 she was awarded the BSAVA Woodrow Award for outstanding contribution in the field of small animal veterinary medicine, in 2011 she was awarded the International Society for Feline Medicine/Hill’s award for Outstanding Contributions to Feline Medicine, in2012 the Royal Dick students voted her “The clinician I would most like to be”, in 2016 FECAVA awarded her “Increased Vocalisation in Elderly Cats” the most original paper in the European Journal of Companion Animal Practice that year, and in 2017 she became a Fellow of the RCVS. She shares her home with her husband Frank, a tiny little 20 year old black cat called Sheba-Ardbeg, and a gorgeous Maine Coon kitten of 8 months old called Brora.