Veterinary Clinical Medicine-I (General and Systemic)

 DIAGNOSIS

Based on

• History
• Clinical Signs
• X ray
• Ultrasonography

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS

• Dietary indiscretion
• Ingested grass materials: grass or house plants
• Chemical irritation or Toxins like  herbicides, cleaning materials, heavy materials.
• Drugs : Aspirin, NSAID’s, glucocorticoids
• Viral infections : Parvo virus
• Bacterial infections : Helicobacter
• Parasites : Physanoptesa, Ollulanus tricuspis
• Systemic disorder : ureamia, liner diseases, neurological diseases, sepsis
• Gastric / Pyloric Obstruction: -foreign body, neoplasms or polyps.
• Hepatic diseases 
•  Renal failure
• Neurologic -spinal cord diseases in dogs receiving corticosteroids.
• Most cell tumours
• Gastrinoma
• Stress