Pet Owner Educational Atlas. Nephrology and Urology

Anatomy and physiology of the urinary tract

1. Anatomy of the urinary tract
2. Renal physiology

Diseases of the kidney
Acute kidney injury

3. Acute kidney injury (AKI). General
4. Leptospirosis
5. Ethylene glycol toxicity
6. Drug-induced nephrotoxicity
7. Lily nephrotoxicity

Chronic kidney disease

8. Chronic kidney disease (CKD). General
9. Polycystic kidney disease (PKD)
10. Fanconi syndrome
11. Hydronephrosis
12. Juvenile renal disease

Glomerular disease

13. Glomerular disease. General
14. Amyloidosis
15. Immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis
16. Leishmaniasis
17. Lyme nephritis
18. Nephrotic syndrome

Complications of kidney disease

19. Anemia
20. Secondary mineral and bone disorders
21. Hypertension
22. Renal proteinuria
23. Uremic stomatitis and halitosis
24. Uremic gastroenteropathy
25. Metabolic acidosis
26. Polyuria and polydipsia
27. Hypercoagulability and thromboembolism

Diseases of the lower urinary tract
Urinary tract infections

28. Acute cystitis
29. Recurrent urinary tract infection
30. Urinary tract infection caused by a recessed vulva
31. Subclinical bacteriuria
32. Pyelonephritis
33. Prostatitis
34. Polypoid cystitis
35. Emphysematous cystitis
36. Fungal urinary tract infection

Urolithiasis

37. Infection-induced struvite uroliths
38. Sterile struvite uroliths
39. Calcium oxalate uroliths
40. Cystine uroliths
41. Urate uroliths
42. Nephrolithiasis
43. Ureterolithiasis

Micturition disorders

44. Urethral sphincter mechanism incompetence (USMI)
45. Detrusor–urethral dyssynergia
46. Ectopic ureter
47. Pelvic bladder

Miscellaneous

48. Urothelial carcinoma
49. Urethral obstruction
50. Feline idiopathic cystitis
51. Idiopathic renal hematuria
52. Urachal remnants
53. Capillariasis
54. Idiopathic hypercalcemia in cats
55. Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)

Procedures

56. Kidney biopsy
57. Cystoscopy
58. Extracorporeal blood purification therapies. Hemodialysis and plasmapheresis
59. Subcutaneous ureteral bypass (SUB)
60. Stenting

Shelly Vaden

She graduated in veterinary medicine from the University of Georgia, USA, in 1985 and obtained the status of Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 1989 after completion of a residency in small animal internal medicine at North Carolina State University, North Carolina, USA. She completed her PhD at the same university.

Since 1991, she has been a faculty member of the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University, where she currently oversees a clinic focused on dogs and cats with diseases of the urinary tract. She is author of more than 100 articles published in international scientific journals, and has also authored several book chapters. She has been a speaker at national and international congresses. Her main interest area is diseases of the urinary tract in dogs and cats.