A 12-year-old neutered male standard poodle was seen at a veterinary clinic for a complete oral health assessment and treatment. A routine blood biochemistry revealed a marked hepatic enzymopathy, with gamma-glutamyltransferase being the most severely elevated enzyme. Liver lobectomy was performed...

The urinary gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGTu) is a precocious indicator of renal lesion and the gold standard for the measurement of its activity is the automated method, although semi-automation is often utilized and studies relating this methodology to the occurrence and intensity of analytical...

This study aimed to evaluate the renal function of six bitches of various breeds and ages, with open pyometra, attended in the Small Animal Medical Clinic sector of the Veterinary Hospital from Federal University of Campina Grande, through the measurement of laboratory tests: urea and creatinine...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the risk factors and the prognostic value of some clinicopathological parameters, which can be easily assessed in veterinary practice, in dogs with acute renal failure managed with conservative treatment. Medical records of 29 dogs diagnosed with acute renal...

Since gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase (GGT) is highly and locally expressed in human breast cancer, a GGT-enzymatically activatable fluorescent probe, gamma-glutamyl hydroxymethyl rhodamine green (gGlu-HMRG), has been developed to detect the human breast cancer area with high performance. In this...

Objectives: To document changes in urinary biomarker concentration and conventional diagnostic tests of acute kidney injury (AKI) following hypotension and fluid resuscitation in anaesthetized dogs. Study design: Experimental, repeated measures, prospective study. Animals: A group of six male adult ...

Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common form of primary liver cancer in dogs. Despite this, relatively few reports of this disease exist pertaining to prognostic factors and outcome. Aim: To evaluate factors associated with survival in dogs with all subtypes of HCC diagnosed...

Gallbladder mucocele (GM) is a common extrahepatic biliary disease recognized in dogs and is defined as the expansion and extension of the gallbladder by an accumulation of semi-solid bile or bile acid. Histopathological diagnosis of necrotizing cholecystitis and transmural coagulative necrosis of...

Canine visceral leishmaniasis frequently causes glomerulonephritis and tubulointerstitial nephritis, nephropathies for which diagnosis has been limited by the low sensitivity of traditional tests. The aim of this study was to evaluate serum cystatin C and urinary gamma-glutamyltransferase (uGGT)...

Collecting blood from an indwelling arterial catheter may reduce stress from repeated venipuncture in patients requiring serial monitoring, but the use of arterial blood for hematological and biochemical testing remains understudied. Here, we compared hematological and biochemical results of...