ArticleJournal of feline medicine and surgery2020
Recurrence rate and long-term course of cats with feline lower urinary tract disease.
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- Interstitial cystitis-an imbalance of risk and protective factors?Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- The impact of urine storage methods on the results of quantitative bacterial culture in dog and cat.Veterinarni medicina · 2023Article
- Retrospective analysis of 131 feline uroliths from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland (2010-2020).Irish veterinary journal · 2023Article
- Association between the COVID-19 global pandemic and the prevalence of cats presenting with urethral obstruction at two university veterinary emergency rooms.Journal of feline medicine and surgery · 2023Article
- Uroprotective and pain-relieving effect of dietary supplementation with micronized palmitoyl-glucosamine and hesperidin in a chronic model of cyclophosphamide-induced cystitis.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Article
- Prevalence, Risk Factors, Pathophysiology, Potential Biomarkers and Management of Feline Idiopathic Cystitis: An Update Review.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Review
- Preliminary demonstration of benchtop NMR metabolic profiling of feline urine: chronic kidney disease as a case study.BMC research notes · 2021Article
- Retrospective interview-based long-term follow-up study of cats diagnosed with idiopathic cystitis in 2003-2009.Journal of feline medicine and surgery · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesFeline lower urinary tract disease (FLUTD) causes clinical signs such as stranguria, pollakiuria, haematuria, vocalisation and periuria, and is often associated with recurring episodes. The primary objective of this study was to survey the long-term course of cats presenting with FLUTD in terms of recurrence rate and mortality.
methodsData from cats that were presented with lower urinary tract signs from 2010 to 2013 were collected by telephone interview with cat owners, using a questionnaire. The observation period ranged from the first presentation due to FLUTD to the telephone interview or the cat's death. Data on diagnoses, recurrence of clinical signs and disease-free intervals, as well as implementation and impact of prophylactic measures (PMs), were collected and compared between groups with different aetiologies.
resultsThe study included 101 cats. Fifty-two cats were diagnosed with feline idiopathic cystitis, 21 with urolithiasis and 13 with bacterial urinary tract infection; 15 had no definitive diagnosis. Of the 86 cats with a known diagnosis, the recurrence rate was 58.1%, with no significant difference between groups. Twenty-one cats had one relapse, 12 had two relapses, 10 had three and seven had four to eight relapses within a median observation period of 38 months (range 0.5-138 months). Fourteen cats suffered from different causes of FLUTD at different episodes. Mortality due to FLUTD among all 101 cats was 5.0%. The recurrence rate in cats with urolithiasis receiving at least two PMs was significantly lower than the recurrence rate in those without PMs ( CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: More than half of the cats with FLUTD presented with two or more recurrent episodes irrespective of the identified aetiology. Cats should be thoroughly investigated at each presentation as it cannot be presumed that the cause of FLUTD is the same at different episodes. The mortality due to FLUTD is lower than previously reported.
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