Diagnosis in Dermatology. Pet Owner Educational Atlas

1. Structure and function

• 1. Follicular cycle
• 2. Defence mechanisms of the skin
• 3. The skin as an indicator of health status

2. Diagnostic tests

• 4. Skin scrapings
• 5. Trichogram
• 6. Skin surface cytology
• 7. Fine-needle aspiration (FNA) cytology
• 8. Culture of dermatophytes
• 9. Bacterial culture and sensitivity tests
• 10. Skin biopsy
• 11. Ear examination

3. Clinical manifestations and pathological processes

PRURITUS

• 12. Skin diseases that cause pruritus
• 13. Diagnostic protocol for allergic triad
• 14. Chronic pruritus:
  • hyperpigmentation, acanthosis
• 15. Acral dermatitis or lick granuloma

ALOPECIA

• 16. Types of alopecia and diagnostic plan
• 17. Noninflammatory alopecia
• 18. Follicular dysplasias
• 19. Ischaemic skin diseases
• 20. Scarring alopecia and telogen effluvium
• 21. Feline symmetrical alopecia
• 22. Alopecia and skin atrophy secondary to topical corticosteroid treatment
• 23. Cyclic flank alopecia
• 24. Post-shaving and traction alopecia
• 25. Pattern baldness

PUSTULES AND EPIDERMAL COLLARETTES

• 26. Pyoderma
• 27. Antibiotic treatment of pyoderma
• 28. Other processes that cause pustules

EROSIONS AND ULCERS

• 29. Trauma-induced erosions and ulcers
• 30. Immune-mediated diseases
• 31. Diseases with erosive and ulcerative lesions
• 32. Feline idiopathic ulcerative dermatitis
• 33. Feline viral infections
• 34. Feline eosinophilic granuloma complex

KERATOSEBORRHEIC DISORDERS

• 35. Seborrhoea
• 36. Nasodigital hyperkeratosis
• 37. Ear margin seborrhoea
• 38. Schnauzer comedo syndrome
• 39. Sebaceous adenitis
• 40. Calluses and callus pyoderma
• 41. Canine and feline acne
• 42. Zinc-responsive dermatitis

PIGMENTATION DISORDERS

• 43. Diseases associated with skin depigmentation
• 44. Skin hyperpigmentation

MISCELLANEOUS

• 45. Feline paraneoplastic diseases
• 46. Canine paraneoplastic diseases
• 47. Skinfold dermatitis or intertrigo
• 48. Canine oral papillomatosis
• 49. Shar pei mucinosis
• 50. Surgical treatment of abscesses
• 51. Shampoo therapy
• 52. Controlling pruritus
• 53. Long-acting antibiotics

Carmen Lorente

She graduated and obtained her PhD in Veterinary Medicine from the Complutense University of Madrid (1988, 2005) and is certified in Dermatology by the European College of Veterinary Dermatology (ECVD).
She began her professional career by founding the Cercedilla Veterinary Clinic in 1989, where she worked until 2002. In 2000 she moved to Valencia as a tenured professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the CEU Cardenal Herrera University (UCH-CEU) and head of the Dermatology Service of the UCH-CEU Veterinary teaching Hospital. In 2007 she went back to Madrid and founded the Adervet Veterinary Dermatology Centre, which she has been managing up to now. From 2007 to 2009, she combined her work at Adervet with the management of the areas of small animal dermatology and internal medicine at the
Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the Alfonso X el Sabio University in Madrid.
Full member of the European Society of Veterinary Dermatology (ECVD), member of the International Society of Veterinary Dermatopathology (ISVD), of AMVAC, of AVEPA and of the GEDA Scientific Committee.
Master in Dermatology by the European School of Advanced Veterinary Studies (ESAVS) in 1998.
Speaker in many congresses, courses, conferences, seminars, practical workshops and author of several national and international publications.
Member of the AMVAC Scientific Committee and part of the AMVAC Board of Directors since November 2011. Member of the Local Organising Committee for the European Congress
of Dermatology ESVD-ECVD 2013. Regular guest on the radio show “Como el perro y el gato” (“Like cats and dogs”) of the Spanish radio station Onda Cero.