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I am a veterinarian in upstate New York. We don\u2019t normally treat many heartworm positive dogs, but my associate and I are treating a patient with heartworm disease. In the article Principles of Treatment: Canine Heartworm Disease<\/strong> (March\/April 2015), Table 2 gives the prednisone dosing for day 60 and day 91 as Q 12 H the first week, Q 8 H the second week, and then EOD the third and fourth weeks, while the text gives the dosing as Q 12 H the first week, Q 24 H the second week, and then EOD the third and fourth weeks. Can you confirm which is correct?<\/p>\n \u2014Heather Highbrown, DVM<\/em> \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Dear Dr. Highbrown,<\/p>\n Thank you for contacting us with this question. The text in the article is correct: Dosing of prednisone on days 60 and 91 is: 0.5 mg\/kg PO Q 12 H the first week, 0.5 mg\/kg PO Q 24 H the second week, and 0.5 mg\/kg PO EOD for the third and fourth weeks. We\u2019ve corrected this table in both the digital edition of this issue and in the article on our website.<\/p>\n \u2014Lesley King, MVB, Diplomate ACVECC & ACVIM (Small Animal Internal Medicine)<\/em> We love to hear from our readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[361],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-november-december-2015","column-editors-letter","clinical_topics-parasitology"],"acf":{"hide_sidebar":false,"hide_sidebar_ad":false,"hide_all_ads":false},"yoast_head":"\n
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