Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS
 April 1, 2008
By:Cathy Langston, DVM, DACVIM
The International Renal Interest Society (IRIS) has developed a system to stage chronic kidney disease (CKD).
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Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS
April 1, 2008
By:Cathy Langston, DVM, DACVIM
Proteinuria can be pre-glomerular, glomerular, or post-glomerular in origin.
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Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS
April 1, 2008
By:Cathy Langston, DVM, DACVIM
Kidney disease is classically compartmentalized into acute and chronic disease, which is a convenient way to view what are very frequently markedly different manifestations of kidney disease.
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Source: CVC PROCEEDINGS
April 1, 2008
By:Cathy Langston, DVM, DACVIM
The majority of uroliths submitted for analysis are retrieved from the lower urinary tract (primarily bladder, occasionally urethra).
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Source: DVM NEWSMAGAZINE
 December 1, 2007
By:Carl A. Osborne, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM, Jody P. Lulich, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM
A quarter-century ago, analysis of uroliths removed (usually by surgery) was optional. In fact, rather than have the stones analyzed, some veterinary practitioners gave them to their clients as a topic of conversation. What about today? Is it an acceptable standard of practice to give stones retrieved from the urinary tract to owners without knowing their composition? What would be your response to a physician who gave you stones retrieved from your urinary tract? Believe it or not, we have received uroliths for analysis formed by our veterinary colleagues that were given to them by a physician. Of course, we did not perform the requested analysis because we did not want to cross the line of practicing medicine without a license. Instead, we sent them to a laboratory licensed to provide that service.
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Source: DVM NEWSMAGAZINE
September 1, 2007
By:Carl A. Osborne, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM
Urinalysis is one of our most important clinical diagnostic tools. Unfortunately, most diagnostic reagent strips used to perform routine urinalyses in veterinary laboratories have been designed for human use.
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Source: ELSEVIER
 May 1, 2007
By:S. Dru Forrester, DVM, MS, Philip Roudebush, DVM
Feline lower urinary tract disease (FLUTD) includes any disorder affecting the urinary bladder or urethra of cats (eg, uroliths, urethral plugs, bacterial infection).
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Source: VETERINARY MEDICINE
 July 1, 2006
By:Nyssa J. Reine, DVM, DACVIM (small animal internal medicine)
Definitively diagnosing canine hyperadrenocorticism (Cushing's disease) can be exceptionally difficult because nonadrenal illness can affect the test results. However, I think that the urine cortisol:creatinine ratio (UC:Cr) serves an invaluable role in ruling out canine Cushing's disease since a dog with a normal UC:Cr almost assuredly does not have Cushing's disease.
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