Journal of Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems
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Eric Morris

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• Review Article
  Comparative Pharmacotherapy of Thyroid Diseases in Dogs and Cats--- What Should the Retail Pharmacist Filling Pet Prescriptions Understand?
  Author(s): Marina Mickael, Eric Morris, Mollie M Roush and Inder Sehgal Marina Mickael, Eric Morris, Mollie M Roush and Inder Sehgal
  
  Community pharmacies are increasingly receiving prescriptions from veterinarians for dogs and cats to receive human medications. However, retail pharmacists are not routinely trained in relevant aspects of veterinary-specific pharmacotherapy, such as, signs of improvement, time to improvement, drug administration techniques and potential adverse effects. Thyroid diseases in dogs and cats are treated with human-approved drugs that may be referred to pharmacies. Hypothyroidism is far more frequent in dogs, while hyperthyroidism is far more frequent in cats. Important comparative aspects of canine hypothyroidism pharmacotherapy can be summarized as follows: 1) Canine hypothyroid disease is similar to Hashimoto’s thyroiditis in humans in many of its signs and is treated using levothyroxine; 2) The doses of levothyroxine given to dogs are strikingly higher than in pe.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2376-0419.S3-002

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