27/11/2025
How can clinicians reliably distinguish stroke from other acute neurological emergencies?
In this interview, Dr. Laurent Garosi, Dipl. ECVN, FRCVS, breaks down a fundamental principle of veterinary neurology: using the temporal profile of a disease to guide differential diagnosis.
Dr. Garosi explains how the mnemonic VITAMIN D helps categorize disease processes and why vascular events—typically acute in onset and non-progressive—stand apart from other conditions such as inflammatory diseases, head trauma, or acute tumor decompensation.
By focusing on how quickly signs appear and evolve, clinicians can better identify cerebrovascular disease and distinguish it from other disorders that may initially mimic stroke but follow a different clinical trajectory.
👉 Watch the full interview to delve deeper into this essential diagnostic approach.