A UC Davis study is investigating why Labrador retrievers develop copper-associated hepatopathy and whether blood-based tools could help identify the disease before serious liver damage occurs.
|Articles|October 19, 2009
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“Results revealed that a higher risk of an anesthetic-related death was related to increased American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status, increased urgency and duration of the procedure, and patient age (> 12 years).”
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