Classification and Laboratory Evaluation of Anemia

Sammanfattning

This chapter discusses initial and general diagnosis of anemia based primarily on laboratory findings. The clinical signs that prompt an animal's owner to seek a clinician to diagnose and then treat an anemia include weakness, lack of stamina, pale mucous membranes, icterus, and hemoglobinuria or hematuria (red urine). Anemia which is too mild to cause these signs is more often detected by initial hematological examination of patients. Anemia diagnosis should begin with a CBC including blood smear evaluation. Internal blood loss mimics hemolytic anemia in that erythrocytes are broken down within the body and plasma proteins are not lost from the body. External blood loss causes loss of plasma proteins as well as erythrocytes, so plasma protein concentration should be evaluated. Mild to moderate nonregenerative anemia is often secondary to conditions such as inflammation, renal or hepatic disease, endocrine disease, neoplasia, etc.

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Titel: Schalm's Veterinary Hematology, Seventh Edition
Utgivare: Wiley

SLU författare

• Tvedten, Harold

  • Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

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Klinisk laboratoriemedicin

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• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119500537.ch25
• ISBN: 9781119500506
• eISBN: 9781119500537

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