ArticleJournal of feline medicine and surgery2019
Relationship between total thyroxine, thyroid palpation and a clinical index in hyperthyroid and healthy cats and cats with other diseases.
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- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is not the sole echocardiographic phenotype associated with hyperthyroidism in cats: a retrospective study in 147 cats (2005-2025).Journal of veterinary internal medicine · 2026Article
- Hyperthyroid cats and their kidneys: a literature review.Australian veterinary journal · 2022Review
- Serum thyroxine and thyrotropin concentrations decrease with severity of nonthyroidal illness in cats and predict 30-day survival outcome.Journal of veterinary internal medicine · 2020Article
- Value of repeated health screening in 259 apparently healthy mature adult and senior cats followed for 2 years.Journal of veterinary internal medicineArticle
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Abstract
objectivesPresent-day diagnosis of hyperthyroidism is often established in the early stages where clinical signs and physical examination findings typically associated with the disease may not yet be present. The purpose of this study was to investigate thyroid palpation score (TPS), total thyroxine (T4), body weight, body condition score and a clinical scoring index, which assesses severity of illness and quality of life, in untreated hyperthyroid cats, healthy cats and cats with non-thyroidal illness.
methodsFifty-five cats with hyperthyroidism, 45 healthy cats and 327 euthyroid cats with non-thyroidal disease were prospectively enrolled. A Kruskal-Wallis test was used to determine any differences between metric data. A χ
resultsAlmost 80% of the hyperthyroid cats and up to 20% of the healthy cats and cats with non-thyroidal illness had a palpable thyroid gland. Median TPS in hyperthyroid cats was 2, which was significantly higher compared with the other groups. Although there was a significant correlation between TPS and T4 when evaluating all cats, this could not be demonstrated in the three subgroups. Hyperthyroid cats with larger thyroid glands (TPS >3) did not have higher T4 levels. Hyperthyroid cats with lower clinical scores had significantly higher T4 levels compared with hyperthyroid cats with higher scores. Hyperthyroid cats were older and had lower body weights and body condition scores than other cats. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Hyperthyroid cats were commonly found to have palpable thyroid glands, but they were smaller than previously reported.
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