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myself in the studio, we're going to talk to Linda Rutherford. So she's one of our lecturers in

small animal surgery. Hello, Linda. How are you? Hi, Dom. Good, thank you. Good, good, good. Well, thank you for

joining us. And we're going to talk about a boa, so brachycephalic upper airway, sorry,

obstructive airway syndrome, right? Yeah, that's right, yeah. I got there eventually. Or like now

there's a debate, though, in the literature. It's becoming brachycephalic airway syndrome rather than obstructive,

or some people like just brachycephalic syndrome.

And are there, so is it trying to sort of differentiate certain parts of the disease?

I think brachycephalic dogs themselves have lots of different aspects of, like lots of different health issues.

So I think if like with the airway syndrome, I guess lots of them have GI disease and that's

being investigated more and more.

So I think that's to try and encompass that.

Okay.

Well, that makes sense.

So he's trying to sort of separate the, strictly the airways from everything else that they might get.

Yeah.

So when would be sort of the first time that you'd be able to recognise that a patient might have this?

I suppose we're talking about all the classical brachycephalic dogs. So you

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