Diagnostic features, treatment, and outcome of dogs with inflammatory protein-losing enteropathy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Protein-losing enteropathy (PLE) because of chronic inflammatory enteropathy (CIE) in dogs is often treated with a combination of glucocorticoids and second-line immunosuppressant (SLI). This combined approach might not be necessary in all dogs.

Hypothesis/objectives

To describe diagnostic features and outcomes of dogs with PLE treated with glucocorticoids alone (group P) or with glucocorticoids and SLI (group S).

Animals

Thirty-one dogs with PLE.

Material and methods

Retrospective analysis of signalment data from diagnostic procedures, treatment, and outcome of dogs with CIE/PLE (from 2015 to 2017), using the hospital's digital case database. Dogs with hypoalbuminemia and CIE were included. Because of a stepwise treatment algorithm, dogs were alloca

SUBMITTER: Salavati Schmitz S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6766500 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature