Thread: Wasting Cat
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Old June 21st, 2008, 07:53 PM
mandimus mandimus is offline
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Yes, bloodwork has been being done on a regular basis, before and after the prednisone. She had a urinalyisis done when we first caught this because the initial suspicion was a kidney infection. The urinalysis showed trace amounts of blood, and two culters grew nothing. She was put on antibitotics before the cultures came back neg, and has since been taken off. I know the jaundice could have something to do with hepatic lipidosis from when she wasn't eating before we discovered it, but she was not yellow until only a few days ago. She's been being syringe fed for weeks now. I tackled a vet who was passing through our facility and he recommended doing a liver panel on her. He also recommended having a veterinary pathologist look at the blood slides that we have for her to get a better assessment to the possibility of lymphoma... but he also said that with lymphoma, the lymphnodes would be swollen. So Monday, we'll see about getting that done.
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