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.
Klinikus oktatóként több állatorvos generáció nőtt fel a keze alatt, és számos munkatársa szerezte meg irányításával a szakmai előre lépéshez szükséges tudományos, PhD-fokozatot. Oktatói tevékenységét nem csupán az egyetemi hallgatók és az állatorvosok részére tartott szakmai előadásai és gyakorlati oktató munkája, hanem nagyszámú egyetemi jegyzetei és szakkönyvei is fémjelzik. Ezek közül külön említést érdemel a 2019-ben kiadott „Állatorvosi belgyógyászat. A kutyák és a macskák betegségei” című szakkönyv, amelynek szerkesztője, valamint számos fejezetének szerzője, illetve társszerzője.
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/) a Budatétényi Állatkórházban (www.budatetenyiallatkorhaz.hu) rendel, heti két alkalommal, a keddi és a szerdai napokon.
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.