Key result
Review highlights traditional labs, cardiac biomarkers, and thyroid profiling for evaluating feline cardiac diseases.
Why the study?
The authors sought to provide a comprehensive overview of existing literature on feline clinical pathology in heart disease, categorizing alterations in traditional laboratory tests and biomarkers.
Provides an overview of the utility of traditional laboratory tests and specific biomarkers like troponin and natriuretic peptides in evaluating feline cardiac diseases.
May aid feline cardiac diagnostics via biomarkers; leaves open prospective validation before routine adoption.
Laboratory tests can be altered in cardiovascular diseases and the investigation of specific tests or biomarkers may provide additional information about myocardial damage. Traditional laboratory tests, such as cell blood count, serum biochemistry, and coagulation, can be useful in investigating patients, but are not specific. However, markers like Troponin and Natriuretic Peptides may possibly furnish further data on myocardium damage and can be used in both studying and monitoring cats with cardiac disease. Moreover, the evaluation of the thyroid profile is very important as hyperthyroid cats concomitant cardiovascular diseases are very common and they can also be a direct consequence of endocrinopathy. The purpose of this manuscript is to provide the widest possible overview of what is present in the literature about the feline clinical pathology of heart diseases through a rational division of the main alterations of traditional tests and biomarkers.
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Gavazza et al. (2021) conducted a review in Feline Cardiac Diseases. Laboratory tests and biomarkers was evaluated. A review of the literature highlights the utility of traditional laboratory tests, cardiac biomarkers like Troponin and Natriuretic Peptides, and thyroid profiling in evaluating feline cardiac diseases.
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