Research Directions in European Veterinary Pathology in 2010-2016 based on the Congresses of the European Society of Veterinary Pathology and the European College of Veterinary Pathologists

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to depict the current research directions in veterinarypathologyinEurope.Theanalysiswascarriedoutbasedontheabstractsand agendasoftheannualEuropeanSocietyofVeterinaryPathology(ESVP)congresses organisedtogetherwiththeEuropeanCollegeofVeterinaryPathologists(ECVP) in2010-2016.Intotal,1444presentationswereevaluated,including41plenary lectures, 319 short oral presentations, and 1081 posters, and in 2016 also three scienceslams.Itwasfoundthatinfectiousandparasiticdiseases(467presentations, 32.34%)andoncology(450presentations,31.16%)werethemostcommonlydiscussedtopics.Organpathologywasalsoaddressed(327presentations,22.65%), with the subsequent places taken by research on different topics (140 presentations, 9.70%) and toxicopathology (67 presentations, 4.64%). Among the most commonly presented issues, there was a substantial number of presentations on neurology(129speeches,8.93%)andmammaryglanddiseases(101presentations, 6.99%).Adownwardtrendwasrevealedforinfectiousandparasiticdiseasesand foroncology,andapositivetrendfororganpathology,thefirstandthethirdbeing statisticallysignificant.

Where are we with Polish pathology at the turn of the centuries in the light of the Congresses of the Polish Society of Pathologists?

“…This trend is also noticeable in the world oncology, manifests both in the increase of the incidence of tumours and in the number of publications on this subject [13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19]. In addition, oncology has also shown great interest in European veterinary medicine, although in this case the growing trend is characterized by organ pathology [20,21,22,23,24]. A large part of the analysed works in the discussed field referred to case studies, more than twice excessing those presenting statistical analysis.…”