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Figure 1. Postoperative picture of a four-year-old male Shih Tzu with Figure 2. A four-year-old castrated male Shih Tzu two months after
CKD and probable uremic vasculitis involving the tail. The tail was therapy was instituted for CKD. The dog’s coat quality had returned
amputated and a castration was performed to manage concurrent to normal and overall clinical condition was improved.
prostatic disease.
azotemia progressively increased over the next six months. Subcutaneous fluid therapy (100 ml every other day) was added when
serum creatinine concentration exceeded 5 mg/dl. The dog died of progressive CKD 11 months after initial evaluation.

Endnotes
a. Prescription Diet k/d Canine. Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Inc., Topeka, KS, USA.
b. Tagamet. SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
c. Cytotec. GD Searle & Co, Chicago, IL, USA.
d. Carafate. Marion Merrell Dow, Kansas City, MO, USA.
e. Epogen. Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA, USA.
f. Clavamox. Pfizer Animal Health, Exton, PA, USA.
g. Rocaltrol. Roche Laboratories, Nutley, NJ, USA.

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