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Hamster Abdominal Distension: Diagnostic Workup
A clinician-facing approach to abdominal distension in pet hamsters, integrating stabilization, compartment-based localization, reproductive and urinary disease, imaging, sampling, and procedural risk.
Read →Hamster Hematuria: Diagnostic Workup and Management
A clinician-facing workflow for localizing apparent hematuria in hamsters, prioritizing obstruction, and selecting urinalysis, culture, imaging, and reproductive evaluation.
Read →Hamster cheek pouch impaction and eversion: differentials, evacuation, reduction and resection
A pink mass at a hamster's lip is usually an everted cheek pouch, but impaction, abscess and carcinoma present the same way. A GP-facing reference on discriminating the five presentations, evacuating and lavaging an impacted pouch, reducing versus resecting an eversion, and anaesthetising a sub-150 g rodent — with hamster-specific dose figures and an honest account of how thin the clinical evidence base is.
Read →Tyzzer's Disease (Clostridium piliforme) in Gerbils and Pet Rodents
Tyzzer's disease is the most frequently described fatal infectious disease of gerbils and usually presents as sudden death. A clinical reference on presentation, why ante-mortem confirmation fails, what antimicrobials can and cannot achieve, and spore decontamination.
Read →Hamster Wet Tail (Proliferative Ileitis): A Clinical Reference
A DVM clinical reference on "wet tail" — proliferative ileitis of weanling Syrian hamsters associated with Lawsonia intracellularis: etiology and differentials, presentation, diagnosis, the hamster antibiotic-safety rule, fluid-first treatment with formulary doses, prevention, and prognosis.
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