March 2024 issue of Australian Veterinary Practitioner (AVP) is out now! 

The first edition of Australian Veterinary Practitioner for 2024 is now available. Exclusively for AVA Small Animal members, the March issue features a wonderful mix of cancer and coronavirus papers, including a discussion on the unusual presentation (pericardial effusion) and subtleties of management with anti-viral medication. 

The second report of a cat with FIP with both gastric ulceration and a secondary infection (with Nakaseomyces glabrata previously known as Candida glabrata) highlights how unusual presentation of a disease as well known as FIP can be difficult to work through. 

There are also three papers focusing on cancer: 

• the measurement of SDMA in a cohort of dogs with multicentric lymphoma; 
• an analysis of risk factors and types of skin cancer in dogs (from an equally sunny country as Australia); and 
• the unusual diagnosis of a phaeochromocytoma in a cat.  

Published online quarterly, the Australian Veterinary Practitioner (AVP) is the official journal of the Australian Small Animal Veterinarians, a special interest group of the AVA and is distributed to members and subscribers. 

The journal was established in 1971 to further the clinical and educational interests of veterinary practitioners and students throughout Australia. The AVP contains clinical reviews, updates and studies, and actively promotes excellent clinical research papers and essays by veterinary students. Prizes for the best clinical paper and the best case report are awarded on an annual basis.