“Severe, acute pancreatitis can be fatal in dogs and humans”
have considerable sympathy for your vet and even more for your spaniel. Pancreatitis describes inflammation of the pancreas, which is almost always sterile and not associated with bacterial or viral infection. The clinical signs vary from rapid death with severe, acute, necrotising pancreatitis through to mild, intermittent abdominal discomfort, seen with low-grade chronic pancreatitis. The clinical signs