Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

In today's VetGirl podcast, we review a recent paper by Lee et al.

entitled Retrospective Evaluation of Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Mitral Valve Repair in Dogs with Myxomatous Mitral Valve Disease, published in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine in 2025.

Given the high incidence of myxomatous mitral valve disease in dogs, especially those small dogs we all see... and the high degree of morbidity and mortality it can cause, efforts continue to focus on treatment strategies that can both delay the onset of symptomatic disease and prolong the overall survival of dogs who do develop clinical congestive heart failure.

Ultimately, all medical therapies currently employed to treat this disease can improve cardiac function and but do not address the primary underlying disease itself, namely valvular regurgitation secondary to thickening and prolapse.

Now switching gears here, we have another paper from twenty ten.

We have a paper called "The Placebo Effect in Canine Epilepsy Trials" in the Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine.

So this is a paper understanding the difference between a placebo response and a proven placebo effect.

What does this even mean? We have a meta-analysis of three prospective placebo-controlled trials, including dogs with epilepsy.