Description
Topic: Cushings and Hormone Craziness
Speaker: Patty Lathan, VMD, MS, DACVIM (SAIM)
2 CE hours
Date – Wed., May 18th, 2022
Time – 7-9 pm
Date – Wed., May 18th, 2022
Time – 7-9 pm
$35 for nonmembers, free to members
Zoom link will be sent to registered attendees via email the day before the meeting. Contact Dr. Kris Clements (kclements@stlouisvma.org) if you do not receive the email with the Zoom link.
Patty Lathan, VMD, MS, DACVIM, is an associate professor of small animal internal medicine at Mississippi State University. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, spent a year in general practice, completed an internship at Mississippi State University, and then completed a residency training at Purdue, where she became board certified by ACVIM. She has been at MSU since 2007. Her primary interest is endocrinology, specifically the management of adrenal disease and diabetes mellitus. She has published multiple articles and book chapters, given lectures throughout the United States and internationally, and currently serves as the President of the Society for Comparative Endocrinology. Her students also publish educational endocrine music videos as an assignment for her elective, and those can be viewed on her YouTube channel.
Lecture 1
Hyperadrenocorticism I: Diagnostic Tips and Tricks
Summary: This lecture will discuss clinical signs and other hallmarks of hyperadrenocorticism. The differences between diagnostic tests will be highlighted, and a practical
approach to differentiation will be presented using a case-based approach. After the lecture, attendees should be able to:
Identify a patient with hyperadrenocorticism.
Determine which tests will be most helpful in the definitive diagnosis of hyperadrenocorticism.
Choose which differentiation tests to use based on an individual patient and practitioner’s situation.
Summary: This lecture will discuss clinical signs and other hallmarks of hyperadrenocorticism. The differences between diagnostic tests will be highlighted, and a practical
approach to differentiation will be presented using a case-based approach. After the lecture, attendees should be able to:
Identify a patient with hyperadrenocorticism.
Determine which tests will be most helpful in the definitive diagnosis of hyperadrenocorticism.
Choose which differentiation tests to use based on an individual patient and practitioner’s situation.
Lecture 2
Hyperadrenocorticism II: Update on Monitoring Dogs Receiving Trilostane Therapy
Summary: This lecture will focus on the treatment of hyperadrenocorticism using trilostane. Monitoring strategies will also be presented. After the lecture, attendees should be able to:
Know the primary goals of management of a patient with hyperadrenocorticism.
Choose a starting dose of trilostane, and know the benefits of SID versus BID dosing.
Understand how to monitor a patient using clinical signs and cortisol testing.
Recognize side effects of trilostane therapy.