I started explaining chronic renal failure and was heading down the road of initiating treatment when my wife (also a vet) pointed out that I was probably jumping the gun, since we had an apparently normal patient with normal creatinine and
normal urine concentration.
Not exact matches
Since more Cx43 means less room in the bladder, the team speculates that although
normal mice didn't stop producing
urine when asleep, their bladders were able to hold more due to decreased Cx43
concentrations.
Yes, Besides returning to
normal blood sodium and potassium
concentrations, dogs with Addison's disease that is well controlled should return to producing
normal urine volume.
Normal concentration should be above 1.025 and sually is greater that 1.045 (a concentrated
urine).
Blood cultures in dogs yield positive results in about 45 % to 75 % of cases, and
urine cultures are positive in about 25 % to 50 % of cases.1 Serologic testing for Brucella antibody and Aspergillus antigen may be performed.5 Cerebral spinal fluid analysis is often
normal, but increased protein
concentration (albuminocytologic dissociation) or a neutrophilic pleocytosis is occasionally observed.1 When
urine, blood cultures, and serology have not identified a cause, CT or fluoroscopy - guided fine - needle aspiration of the infected disc space may be performed under general anesthesia, or a surgical biopsy specimen from the lesion can be obtained for culture.