Heartworm
Heartworm
Prof. Dr. Károly Vörös, Professor, CsC, DSc, has decades of clinical, teaching and clinical research experience.Between 1991 and 2017 he was Head of the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Veterinary Medicine. The first decades of his professional career included the internal medicine care of all domestic mammals. He is also credited with the introduction of ultrasound diagnostics in domestic veterinary internal medicine. For the last twenty years he has been involved in the internal medicine of dogs and cats. His current specialties include ultrasound diagnostics of dogs and cats, cardiology of dogs and cats, and the diagnosis and treatment of canine heartworm disease.
As a clinical instructor, generations of veterinarians have grown up under his tutelage, and under his guidance many of his colleagues have earned the scientific, PhD degrees necessary to advance their careers. His teaching is marked not only by his lectures and practical training for university students and veterinarians, but also by his numerous university notes and textbooks. Among these, special mention should be made of his book "The Animal Veterinarian", published in 2019. "Veterinary internal medicine. Diseases of dogs and cats" of which he is editor and author or co-author of several chapters.
As a dedicated clinician veterinarian, his main task is to diagnose and treat his patients' diseases using the most up-to-date diagnostic and therapeutic methods, as well as to provide aftercare. In the latter, he regularly collaborates with veterinarians in practice throughout the country who send their patients to specialist cardiology and heartworm clinics. He not only applies but also develops new diagnostic and therapeutic methods with his colleagues and publishes the results in national and international journals to inform veterinary practitioners. To date, he has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, both individually and with co-authors.
Recently, he has been devoting more and more of his time and energy to his favourite task, treating his patients. As part of this, in addition to his clinical work at the university (https://univet.hu/hu/klinikak/kisallatklinika/belgyogyaszat/) at the Budatétény Animal Hospital (www.budatetenyiallatkorhaz.hu) twice a week, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
In the framework of his specialised consultations, he performs physical clinical, cardiac ultrasound (echocardiography) and ECG examinations, supplemented by X-ray examinations as required.
Cardiology specialises in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in dogs and cats, and patient follow-up.
In the care of patients with heartworm disease, detailed information is provided on the clinical implications (severity) of the disease diagnosed by blood parasitology tests and the treatment of the disease.