Welcome to the 31st ECVIM-CA Congress 2021

This congress is a very well-known event on the veterinary internal medicine calendar. The program has streams of lectures organized by special interest societies, such as comparative gastroenterology, hepatology, nephrology and urology, oncology, internalmedicine, cardiology and feline medicine. There are also oral abstract sessions, again organized by the specialist societies, and poster exhibits of abstracts. In 2020 there were 112 abstracts accepted as oral presentation and 103 as poster presentation. The congress will also inform specialists how scientific research is evolving and offer insights into future developments.