Today's VeTerinary PracTice | november/december 2015 | tvpjournal.com
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Which Prednisone dose for heartWorm treatment?
Dear Editor,
I am a veterinarian in upstate New York. We don't normally treat many heartworm positive dogs, but my
associate and I are treating a patient with heartworm disease. In the article Principles of Treatment: Canine
Heartworm Disease (March/April 2015), Table 2 gives the prednisone dosing for day 60 and day 91 as Q 12
H the frst week, Q 8 H the second week, and then EOD the third and fourth weeks, while the text gives the
dosing as Q 12 H the frst week, Q 24 H the second week, and then EOD the third and fourth weeks. Can you
confrm which is correct?
—Heather Highbrown, DVM
Hamilton Animal Hospital, Hamilton, New York
Editor Responds
Dear Dr. Highbrown,
Thank you for contacting us with this question. The text in the article is correct: Dosing of prednisone on days
60 and 91 is: 0.5 mg/kg PO Q 12 H the frst week, 0.5 mg/kg PO Q 24 H the second week, and 0.5 mg/kg
PO EOD for the third and fourth weeks. We've corrected this table in both the digital edition of this issue and
in the article on our website.
—Lesley King, MVB, Diplomate ACVECC &
ACVIM (Small Animal Internal Medicine)
Editor in Chief
READER REFLECTIONS:
LeTTer To THe ediTor
correction
In the article A Practitioner's Guide to
Fracture Management—Part 2: Selection of
Fixation Technique & External Coaptation in
the September/October 2015 issue of
Today's
Veterinary Practice
, the caption for Figure 1 did
not correctly describe the wound shown. The
new fgure caption, which can be found in this
article on our
website and in
the September/
October 2015
digital edition,
both available at
tvpjournal.com,
states,"Although
not the case
in the image
shown,
improperly
applied and
maintained casts
can result in
similar injuries, and these injuries may necessitate
amputation, which was required for the patient in
this image."
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