2016 AAFP Guidelines for the Management of Feline Hyperthyroidism.

ABSTRACT:

Clinical context

Since 1979 and 1980 when the first reports of clinical feline hyperthyroidism (FHT) appeared in the literature, our understanding of the disease has evolved tremendously. Initially, FHT was a disease that only referral clinicians treated. Now it is a disease that primary clinicians routinely manage. Inclusion of the measurement of total thyroxine concentration in senior wellness panels, as well as in diagnostic work-ups for sick cats, now enables diagnosis of the condition long before the cat becomes the classic scrawny, unkempt, agitated patient with a bulge in its neck. However, earlier recognition of the problem has given rise to several related questions: how to recognize the health significance of the early presentations of the disease; how early to treat the

SUBMITTER: Carney HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11132203 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature