Forty-six percent (30/65) of cats had abdominal neoplasia, and 54% (35/65) had nonneoplastic conditions. Hemangiosarcoma was the most often diagnosed neoplasm (18/30; 60%), and the spleen was the most common location for neoplasia (11/30; 37%). Eight cats survived to be discharged from the hospital. Cats with neoplasia were significantly older and had significantly lower PCVs than cats with nonneoplastic disease.

Conclusions and Clinical Relevance Spontaneous hemoperitoneum in cats often results in debilitating clinical PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor consequences. In contrast to dogs with hemoperitoneum, the cause of hemoperitoneum in cats

is approximately evenly distributed between neoplastic and nonneoplastic diseases. Although only a few cats were treated in this study, the prognosis appears poor. (J Am Vet Med Assoc Savolitinib 2010;236:978-982)”
“Tobacco control policy has been enacted in many jurisdictions worldwide banning smoking in the workplace. In the hospitality sector many businesses such as bars, hotels and restaurants have installed designated smoking areas on their premises and allowance for such smoking areas has been made in the tobacco control legislation

of many countries. An investigation was carried out into the level of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) present in 8 pubs in Ireland which included designated smoking areas complying with two different definitions of a smoking area set out in Irish legislation. In addition, ETS exposure in a pub NVP-BSK805 clinical trial with a designated smoking area not in compliance with the legislation was also investigated. The results of this investigation showed that the two differing definitions of a smoking area present in pubs produced similar concentrations of benzene within smoking areas (5.1-5.4 mu g/m(3)) but differing concentrations within the ‘smoke-free’ areas (1.42-3.01 mu g/m(3)). Smoking areas

in breach of legislative definitions were found to produce the highest levels of benzene in the smoking area (49.5 mu g/m(3)) and ‘smoke-free’ area (7.68 mu g/m(3)). 3D exposure modelling of hypothetical smoking areas showed that a wide range of ETS exposure concentrations were possible in smoking areas with the same floor area and same smoking rate but differing height to width and length to width ratios. The results of this investigation demonstrate that significant scope for improvement of ETS exposure concentrations in pubs and in smoking areas may exist by refining and improving the legislative definitions of smoking areas in law. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.”
“Objective To describe the health status of foals derived by use of somatic cell nuclear transfer (NT) at a university laboratory.

Design Retrospective case series.

Animals-14 live-born NT-derived foals.