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Aimee Brooks1, Elizabeth Thomovsky1, Paula Johnson1
1Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
Topics in Companion Animal Medicine
|December 15, 2016
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This review article covers basic physiology underlying the clinical use of natural and artificial colloids as well as provide practice recommendations. It also touches on the recent scrutiny of these products in human medicine and how this may have an effect on their use in veterinary medicine.
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