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.

1. Introductory chapters.- Structure and function of feline skin.- Coat color genetics.- Approach to the feline patient: general and dermatological examination.- 2. Problem oriented approach to.- Alopecia.- Papules, pustules, furuncles and crusts.- Plaques, nodules and eosinophilic granuloma complex lesions.- Excoriations, erosions and ulcers.- Scaling.- Pruritus.- Otitis.-3. Skin diseases by etiology.- Bacterial diseases.- Mycobacterial diseases.- Dermatophytosis.- Deep fungal diseases.- Sporothrichosis.- Malassezia.- Viral diseases.- Leishmaniosis.- Ectoparasitic diseases.- Flea biology, allergy and control.- Feline atopic syndrome: epidemiology and clinical presentation.- Feline atopic syndrome: diagnosis.- Feline atopic syndrome: therapy.- Mosquito-byte hypersensitivity.- Autoimmune diseases.- Immune mediated diseases.- Hormonal and metabolic diseases.- Genetic diseases.- Psychogenic diseases.- Neoplastic disease.- Paraneoplastic syndromes.- Idiopathic miscellaneous diseases.