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Chapter
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Introduction to Large

Intestinal Diseases

Deborah J. Davenport
Rebecca L. Remillard

“Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it’s enough.”
Robert Heller

CLINICAL IMPORTANCE Table 61-1. Potential causes of acute large bowel diarrhea
in dogs and cats.
Disorders of the large intestine are frequently encountered in
Dietary
veterinary practice. A number of potential causes of acute and Dietary indiscretion
chronic large bowel diarrhea (Tables 61-1 and 61-2) must be Foreign bodies
distinguished from diseases of other organ systems resulting in Garbage toxicity
Drugs
gastrointestinal signs. Diarrhea associated with large intestinal Cyclophosphamide
conditions differs from that associated with small intestinal dis- Doxorubicin
orders (Table 55-4). Typical clinical manifestations of large Infectious agents
Bacteria
bowel disease include frequent small scanty stools, tenesmus, Campylobacter spp.
dyschezia, urgency and passage of mucus and blood. Table 61- Clostridium spp.
3 lists breed-associated large intestinal disorders. Salmonella spp.
Parasites
Chapters 62 through 65 include feeding plans for patients Giardia lamblia
with large intestinal disorders including colitis, idiopathic (irri- Trichuris vulpis
table) bowel syndrome, constipation/obstipation/megacolon Tritrichomonas foetus
Viruses
and flatulence. Tables in those chapters list the key nutritional Panleukopenia
factors for such patients as well as tables that compare the lev- Parvovirus
els of key nutritional factors of commercial foods marketed for Miscellaneous
Hemorrhagic gastroenteritis
patients with large intestinal diseases. Colon volvulus