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Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Current Treatment Options in Dogs

Handan Hilal Arslan1
  • 1 Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey

Abstract

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is an idiopathic and chronic gastrointestinal failure of cats, dogs and some farm animals such as horses. Since the long and difficult classical therapy of the disease has various side effects such as malignancy and lymphoma, new therapeutic methods are needed. However, a safe and standardized treatment protocol has not been developed, yet. Therefore, IBD treatment is still a big dilemma for both veterinary and human medicine. In this review, IBD and new possible therapeutic alternatives were evaluated for dogs.

American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
Volume 12 No. 3, 2017, 150-158

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajavsp.2017.150.158

Submitted On: 1 April 2017 Published On: 20 August 2017

How to Cite: Arslan, H. H. (2017). Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Current Treatment Options in Dogs. American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, 12(3), 150-158. https://doi.org/10.3844/ajavsp.2017.150.158

Open AccessCopyright: © 2017 Handan Hilal Arslan. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Keywords

  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
  • Novel Treatment
  • Dogs