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Table 5 Clinical diagnoses for patients grouped by clinical disease status

From: Validation of an automated immunoturbidimetric assay for feline serum amyloid A

Group

Diagnoses

n

Cardiac

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

1

Healthy

‘Healthy’ samples

54

Hyperthyroid

Hyperthyroidism (n = 1 with concurrent diabetes mellitus)

15

Inflammatory

Suspect FIPa (n = 24); triaditis, cystitis, orbital abscess (all n = 1)

27

Renal

Chronic kidney disease (n = 7), protein losing nephropathy (n = 1)

8

Neoplastic

Cutaneous haemangiosarcoma, renal lymphoma, salivary adenocarcinoma, soft tissue sarcoma (all n = 1)

4

  1. aSuspect FIP (feline infectious peritonitis) was assigned based on a combination of clinical information and laboratory data including haematology, plasma proteins, α1-AGP and feline coronavirus antibody levels