ArticleJournal of feline medicine and surgery2014
Functional assessment of expiratory flow pattern in feline lower airway disease.
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- Evaluation of Stress Scores of Healthy Adult Cats during Barometric Whole-Body Plethysmography and Its Correlation with Measurement Parameters.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Influence of acclimatization time on parameters of barometric whole-body plethysmography in healthy adult cats.PloS one · 2024Article
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- Constrictive bronchiolitis obliterans with a presumptive etiology of preceding feline herpesvirus infection in a cat.BMC veterinary research · 2022Article
- Evaluation of barometric whole-body plethysmography for therapy monitoring in cats with feline lower airway disease.PloS one · 2022Article
- Treatment of naturally occurring asthma with inhaled fluticasone or oral prednisolone: A randomized pilot trial.Canadian journal of veterinary research = Revue canadienne de recherche veterinaire · 2021Article
- Simultaneous visual inspection for barometric whole-body plethysmography waveforms during pulmonary function testing in client-owned cats.Journal of feline medicine and surgery · 2016Article
- Whole-Body Barometric Plethysmography Characterizes Upper Airway Obstruction in 3 Brachycephalic Breeds of Dogs.Journal of veterinary internal medicine · 2016Article
- Characterisation of Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome in French Bulldogs Using Whole-Body Barometric Plethysmography.PloS one · 2015Article
- Functional phenotype and its correlation with therapeutic response and inflammatory type of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in feline lower airway disease.Journal of veterinary internal medicine · 2015Article
- Influence of acclimatization time on barometric whole-body plethysmography in cats with lower airway disease.Journal of veterinary internal medicineArticle
- Assessing breathing effort by barometric whole-body plethysmography and its relationship with prognosis in client-owned cats with respiratory distress.Journal of veterinary internal medicineArticle
- Correlation of clinical and radiographic variables in cats with lower airway disease.Journal of veterinary internal medicineArticle
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Abstract
Feline lower airway disease (FLAD) is a chronic respiratory disease of which there is a lack of information on functional assessment in current veterinary medicine. The purposes of this study were to investigate expiratory pattern and evaluate the diagnostic utility of functional parameters in cats with FLAD. Thirty-three client-owned cats (23 FLAD cats and 10 control cats) were studied. Under quiet tidal breathing, pseudo-tidal breathing flow-volume loop (pTBFVL) was obtained from a barometric whole body plethysmography (BWBP) device. There were significant differences in the shapes of expiratory, but not inspiratory, curves between FLAD and control cats. The incidence of the presence of concave expiratory curve indicating lower airway obstruction was 74% in FLAD cats. To assess the diagnostic utility of pTBFVL indices in cats with FLAD, area under the receiver-operator curve was 0.86 for PEF/EF50 (peak expiratory flow divided by expiratory flow at end expiratory volume plus 50% tidal volume); a cuff-off value of PEF/EF50 >1.51 distinguished normal from FLAD (73.9% sensitivity, 100% specificity). There were no significant differences in traditionally measured BWBP parameters (ie, enhanced pause) between cats with and without FLAD in the present study. In conclusion, underlying change on expiratory flow pattern during natural tidal breathing existed in FLAD cats, and selected pTBFVL indices were useful in discriminating FLAD from normal cats. Tidal breathing pattern depicted by pseudoflow-pseudovolume loops from a BWBP system could be a non-invasive tool for functional assessment in client-owned cats.
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