07 Diabetes Mellitus and Remission
Veterinary Clinical Podcasts
Dominic Barfield
5.0 • 643 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2013
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
"Every month is diabetes month in my mind!" (Stijn Niessen, 2013). Diabetes mellitus is a common and very important hormonal disease in both dogs and cats. And while not reported in dogs, it has been known for some time that cats can go into diabetic remission. In this podcast featuring Stijn Niessen, Lecturer in Internal Medicine at the QMHA, we start by discussing diabetes mellitus in general terms, including how best to classify the different types, common signs of the disease, making the diagnosis and trying to make sense of the different types of insulin preparations available. Stijn then goes on to fill us in on the motivation for and aims of the new RVC Feline Diabetic Remission Clinic (email fdrc@rvc.ac.uk).
In the podcast Stijn also mentions that vets in the United Kingdom can submit samples from cats for fructosamine measurement for free - find out more at this RVC Clinical Investigations Centre website page under 'Feline diabetes and acromegaly'.
Find out more about CPD from the RVC featuring Stijn here.
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| 0:00.0 | So hello, welcome to this Small Animal Clinical podcast, brought to you from the Royal Veterinary College in London. |
| 0:07.9 | My name is Shane and Jasani. |
| 0:09.9 | Today I'm very pleased to welcome Stein Neeson to the podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | Stein is a European specialist in internal medicine and a lecturer in internal medicine here at the RVC. |
| 0:20.2 | He's really very much something of an expert in the field of veterinary endocrinology. |
| 0:24.6 | He has a PhD in diabetes melitus and is vice-precedent of the European Society of Veterinary Endocrinology. |
| 0:32.6 | So thanks very much, Stein, for joining me today. |
| 0:35.6 | You're very welcome. |
| 0:36.6 | Thank you. So, Stein, today I me today. You're very welcome. Thank you. |
| 0:38.3 | So Stein, today I wanted to talk about diabetes melitus. |
| 0:41.3 | As some of the listeners will know this month, November 2013, is Pet Diabetes Month in the United Kingdom. |
| 0:49.3 | So basically a nationwide campaign to raise awareness of this disease in dogs and cats and to promote testing for it. |
| 0:58.1 | What I was hoping to do today was to kind of briefly review the disease and especially highlight any notable differences that there are between dogs and cats. |
| 1:06.5 | And then I'd like to finish by talking in a bit more detail about diabetic remission in cats and about the work that you and others are doing in that area here at the RBC. |
| 1:15.6 | So I hope that sounds okay. |
| 1:18.6 | So basically, could you please start by kind of summarizing what diabetes melitus is |
| 1:23.6 | and also whether the disease is seen more commonly in certain types of cats or certain |
| 1:28.5 | types of dogs? |
| 1:29.8 | Yeah, no problem. |
| 1:30.9 | First of all, every month is diabetes month in my mind. |
| 1:34.8 | Fair enough. |
| 1:35.2 | So not just November. |
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