Gaschen, Frederic  P.
	Professor of Veterinary Medicine Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences  (1/11/2006)
	Small Animal Internist, Certified Specialist
	Dr.med.vet, University of Bern, 1985
	Diplomate, European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Companion Animal) Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Internal Medicine)

Email	fgaschen@vetmed.lsu.edu
Departmental Phone	225-578-9600
Clinical Service	Companion Animal Medicine
Clinical Interests	Gastroenterology Endoscoopy Nosocomial Infections
Research Interests	Canine and feline gastroenterology -Assessmenet of gastrointestinal motility in dogs -Diagnosis and treatment of chronic enteropathies -Diagnosis and pathogenesis of food allergy Nosocomial infections in small animal hospitals
Biographic Sketch Upon completion of his doctorate thesis, Dr. Gaschen undertook a rotating small animal internship at the University of Guelph, Ontario Veterinary College and a residency in internal medicine in at the University of Florida. He was one of the founding Diplomates of the European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, Companion Animals. He spent over 13 years on faculty at the University of Bern, Switzerland where he became Professor and Head, Division of Small Animal Medicine. He is currently head of the Companion Animal Medicine Service here at LSU. In the last 8 years Dr. Gaschen has focused his research efforts on the pathogenesis of chronic canine enteropathies , on evaluation of gastrointestinal motility in dogs, and on a variety of other topics in small animal gastroenterology (see January 2009 edition of La Vétérinaire, p. 14-15 http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/Web_pdfs/2009-Jan-Feb_LaVet.pdf ) Recent publications - Gaschen L, Kircher P, Stüssi A, Allenspach K, Gaschen F, Doherr M, Gröne A. Comparison of ultrasonographic findings with clinical activity index (CIBDAI) and diagnosis in dogs with chronic enteropathies. Vet Radiol Ultrasound 49 (2008) 56-64. - Schreiner NM, Gaschen F, Gröne A, Sauter SN, Allenspach K.: Clinical signs, histology, and CD3-positive cells before and after treatment of dogs with chronic enteropathies. J Vet Intern Med. 22 (2008) 1079-83 - Allenspach K, Wieland B, Gröne A, Gaschen F: Chronic enteropathies in dogs: Evaluation of risk factors for negative outcome. J Vet Int Med 21 (2007) 700-708 - Sauter SN, Benyacoub J, Allenspach K, Gaschen F, Ontsouka E, Reuteler G, Cavadini C, Knorr R, Blum JW: Effects of probiotic bacteria in dogs with food responsive diarrhoea treated with an elimination diet. J Anim Physiol Anim Nutr 90 (2006), 269-277 - Chetboul V, Blot S, Sampedrano CC, Thibaud JL, Granger N, Tissier R, Bruneval P, Gaschen F, Gouni V, Nicolle AP, Pouchelon JL: Tissue Doppler imaging for detection of radial and longitudinal myocardial dysfunction in a family of cats affected by dystrophin-deficient hypertrophic muscular dystrophy. J Vet Int Med 20 (2006) 640-647 - Allenspach K, Rüfenacht S. Sauter S, Gröne A, Steffan J, Strehlau G, Gaschen F: Pharmacokinetics and clinical efficacy of cyclosporine treatment of dogs with steroid-refractory inflammatory bowel disease. J Vet Int Med 20 (2006) 239-244 - Luckschander N; Allenspach K, Hall J, Seibold F, Gröne A, Doherr MG; Gaschen F: Perinuclear antineutrophilic cytoplasmic antibody and response to treatment in diarrheic dogs with food responsive disease or inflammatory bowel disease. J Vet Int Med 20 (2006) 221-227 - Allenspach K, Steiner JM, Shah B, Berghoff N, Ruaux C, Williams DA, Blum JW, Gaschen F: Gastrointestinal Permeability and Mucosal Absorptive Capacity Testing Do Not Correlate with Canine IBD Activity Index or Histological Scoring of Intestinal Biopsies in Dogs with Chronic Enteropathies. Am J Vet Res 67 (2006) 479-483 - Allenspach K, Vaden SL, Harris TS, Gröne A, Doherr MG, Griot-Wenk ME, Bischoff SC, Gaschen F: Evaluation of colonoscopic allergen provocation (COLAP) as a diagnostic tool in dogs with proven food hypersensitivity reactions. J Small Anim Pract 47 (2006) 21-26 - Allenspach K, Bergman PJ, Sauter S, Gröne A, Doherr MG, Gaschen F: P-glycoprotein expression in lamina propria lymphocytes of duodenal biopsies in dogs with chronic idiopathic enteropathies. J Comp Path 134 (2006) 1-7 - Spichiger AC, Allenspach K, Ontsouka E, Gaschen F, Morel C, Blum JW and Sauter SN: Abundance of mRNA of growth hormone receptor and insulin-like growth factors-1 and -2 in duodenal and colonic biopsies of dogs with chronic enteropathies. J Vet Med A 52 (2005) 491-497 - Sauter SN, Allenspach K, Gaschen F, Gröne A, Onsouka E, Blum JW: Cytokine expression in an ex vivo culture system of duodenal samples from dogs with chronic enteropathies: modulation by probiotic bacteria. Domestic Animal Endocrinology 29 (2005) 605-622 - Gaschen L, Kircher P, Lang J, Gaschen F, Allenspach K, Groene A: Pattern Recognition and Feature Extraction of Canine Celiac and Cranial Mesenteric Arterial Waveforms: Normal vs. Chronic Enteropathy . Vet J 169 (2005) 242-250 - Allenspach K, Luckschander N , Styner M, Seibold F, Doherr M, Aeschbach D, Gaschen F: Validation of perinuclear antineutrophilic cytoplasmic antibodies (pANCA) and antibodies to Saccharomyces cerevisiae (ASCA) as serologic markers in dogs with inflammatory bowel disease. Am J Vet Res 65 (2004), 1279-1283 Recent research abstracts - Hobbs J, Gaschen L, Gaschen F, Merchant S, Stout R. Doppler analysis of gastrointestinal blood flow in dogs - investigations in food allergic patients and role of glucagon-like peptide 2 (GLP-2) in postprandial splanchnic vasodilation. Phi Zeta Research Emphasis Day, LSU SVM, 2008 - Boillat C, Gaschen F, Gaschen L, Stout R, Hosgood G. Variability associated with repeated measurements of gastrointestinal motility in dogs using the SmartPill PhP capsule and scintigraphy. Phi Zeta Research Emphasis Day, LSU SVM, 2008 - Mole C, Gaschen F, Gaschen L. Evaluation of SmartPill capsule for assessment of gastric emptying time and small bowel, colonic and whole gut transit times in dogs. 26th ACVIM Forum, San Antonio, TX, 2008
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