Research Communications of the 27(th) ECVIM-CA Congress: Intercontinental, Saint Julian's, Malta, 14th to 16th September 2017

Disclosures: Disclosures to report. This study was financially supported by the Kennel Club Chari- Diagnosis of canine inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) requires confirmation of histopathologic inflammation in intestinal biopsies. Different studies have found it difficult to correlate histopathologic findings with clinical disease severity due to a lack of consistency between pathologists when describing histopathologic changes and the questionable quality of specimens submitted for diagnostic evaluation. The WSAVA* GI standardization grading scheme (Day, 2008) was an attempt to rectify some of these problems but even it is associated with poor agreement among pathologists. The aim of the present study was to utilize a new grading scheme for improved consistency of evaluation of GI histopathologic findings and to correlate these features to clinical disease activity in dogs with IBD.