Ruminant Metabolic Diseases, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice, Volume 39-2

In this issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food
Animal Practice, guest editor Dr. Robert J. Van Saun brings his
considerable expertise to the topic of Ruminant Metabolic Diseases. Top
experts provide a comprehensive overview of metabolic diseases and
treatments in small and large ruminants caused by deficiencies of
certain essential nutrients, resulting in disturbances of an animal\'s
normal metabolic state.

CONTENTS

1. Ruminant Metabolic Diseases: Perturbed Homeorhesis

2. Metabolic Factors at the Crossroads of Periparturient Immunity and Inflammation

3. Methods of Evaluating the Potential Success or Failure of Transition Dairy Cows

4. Considerations in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Early Lactation Calcium Disturbances

5. Phosphorus Metabolism During Transition

6. Pregnancy Toxemia in Sheep and Goats

7. Pregnancy Toxemia Therapeutic Options

8. Hyperketonemia: A Marker of Disease, a Sign of a High-Producing Dairy Cow, or Both?

9. Transition Management in Grazing Systems: Pragmatism Before Precision

10. Metabolic Diseases in Beef Cattle

11. Urinary Calculi of Small Ruminants

12. Hepatic Lipidosis in Ruminants