Publications by authors named "Isla Trewin"
Feline chronic enteropathies (FCE) are challenging to diagnose and monitor for progression and response to treatment. Fecal calprotectin might be a useful non-invasive marker to evaluate clinical endpoints of therapeutic monitoring in FCE. We evaluated fecal calprotectin concentrations in cats with FCE before and after initiation of treatment comprised of immunomodulation and/or dietary intervention.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDogs with protein-losing enteropathy (PLE) caused by inflammatory enteritis, intestinal lymphangiectasia, or both, have a guarded prognosis, with death occurring as a result of the disease in approximately 50% of cases. Although dietary therapy alone is significantly associated with a positive outcome, there is limited ability to differentiate between food-responsive (FR) PLE and immunosuppressant-responsive (IR) PLE at diagnosis in dogs. Our objective was to determine if a transfer learning computational approach to image classification on duodenal biopsy specimens collected at diagnosis was able to differentiate FR-PLE from IR-PLE.
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- A study investigated dietary risk factors in dogs with chronic enteropathy (CE) by comparing 95 dogs, 48 with CE and 47 healthy controls.
- Findings revealed that dogs with CE were less likely to consume diets with carbohydrates and red meat as the primary protein compared to healthy controls, suggesting a dietary difference prior to illness onset.
- The research emphasized that low moisture content in diets was significantly linked to confirmed CE, indicating that dietary factors may influence the development of this condition in dogs.