Feline Dermatology

Dr. Chiara Noli graduated in veterinary medicine from the University of Milan, Italy, in 1990. After a residency at the University of Utrecht, Holland, she obtained the European Diploma in Veterinary Dermatology in 1996. Since then she works as referral dermatologist and dermatopathologist in Northern Italy. Dr. Noli was President and Founder Member of the Italian Society of Veterinary Dermatology, President of the European Society of Veterinary Dermatology and Board Member of the International Society of Veterinary Dermatopathology and of the World Association for Veterinary Dermatology; she is currently Board Member of the European College of Veterinary Dermatology. Dr. Noli is author of more than 100 articles in Italian and international journals, of nine book chapters and three veterinary dermatology textbooks, and co-editor of the book Veterinary Allergy published by Wiley (2014). She has given several hundred lectures in Italy and in other countries of three continents. Dr. Colombo was born in 1966 in Legnano (MI), Italy, and graduated in Veterinary Medicine in 1992 at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Milan (Italy). She completed a Research Doctorate in Small Animal Internal Medicine at the Medicine Department of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Milan (Italy) from November 1993 to November 1996. She worked at the Medicine Department of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Milan (Italy) from October 1998 to October 2000 with a Post-Doctorate Research grant. During the same period, she also worked in different private practices in Northern Italy for referred dermatology cases. She completed a Senior Clinical Scholarship in Veterinary Dermatology (residency in Veterinary Dermatology) at the Department of Clinical Veterinary Studies, The University of Edinburgh in September 2003 and worked at the Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, as a Temporary Clinical Fellow in Veterinary Dermatology from November 2003 to June 2004. Dr. Colombo passed the Diploma Exam of the European College of Veterinary Dermatology (ECVD) in 2004. She has been an Associate Member of the ESVD (European Society of Veterinary Dermatology) since 1994, and a Full Member since 1996. Dr. Colombo is president of SIDEV (Italian Society of Veterinary Dermatology) and Chair of the ECVD Credentials Committee. Currently, Dr. Colombo is seeing referral cases as a private practitioner in various practices in Northern Italy.

Introductory chapters 1A Structure and function of feline skin (David McEwan Jenkinson) 1B Coat color genetics (Cristina Crosta) 2 Approach to the feline patient: general and dermatological examination (Andy Sparkes and/or Danielle Gunn Moore (feline specialists) and Chiara Noli (dermatologist)) Problem oriented approach to feline skin diseases 3 Pruritus (Silvia Colombo) 4 Alopecia (Silvia Colombo) 5 Nodules (Silvia Colombo) 6 Scaling (Silvia Colombo) 7 Erosions/ulcers (Silvia Colombo) 8 Papules, pustules, crusts (Silvia Colombo) 9 Otitis (Richard Harvey) Skin diseases by etiology 10 Bacterial diseases (Linda Vogelnest) 11 Mycobacterial diseases (Richard Malik) 12 Fungal diseases (Amy Grooters and/or Carol Foil) 13 Dermatophytosis (Karen Moriello) 14 Viral diseases (Claude Favrot) 15 Leishmaniosis (Maria Grazia Pennisi) 16 Ectoparasitic diseases (no fleas) (Patrick Bourdeau) 17 Flea infestation and allergy (Marie Christine Cadiergues) 18 Feline atopic syndrome and eosinophilic dermatitides: pathogenesis, epidemiology, clinical appearance (Alessandra Fondati) 19 Feline atopic syndrome: approach and diagnosis (Ralf Muller) 20 Feline atopic syndrome: treatment (Chiara Noli) 21 Mosquito-byte hypersensitivity (Ken Mason) 22 Autoimmune diseases (Petra Bizikova) 23 Other immune mediated diseases (Frane Banovich) 24 Hormonal and metabolic diseases (Federico Fracassi (endocrinologist), Stephen White (dermatologist)) 25 Genetic diseases (Stephen White) 26 Pigmentary Diseases (Alessandra Fondati) 27 Psychogenic and envirnonmental diseases (Feline behaviourist t.b.a.) 28 Neoplastic diseases (David Argyle) 29 Paraneoplastic syndromes (Ralf Mueller) 30 Idipathic miscellaneous diseases (Linda Vogelnest)