Occurrence, management and outcome of immune-complex glomerulonephritis in dogs with suspected glomerulopathy in the UK.

Objectives: To determine the proportion of dogs diagnosed with immune-complex glomerulonephritis in a large cohort of UK dogs with clinical suspicion of glomerular disease in which renal histopathology, including routine light microscopy, transmission electron microscopy and immunofluorescence, had been performed. The second objective was to describe treatment and long-term clinical outcome of dogs diagnosed with immune-complex glomerulonephritis.

Materials And Methods: Sixty-two UK dogs that underwent renal biopsies for investigation of suspected glomerulopathy (urine protein-to-creatinine ratio persistently >0.

Characterization of and factors associated with causes of pleural effusion in cats.

OBJECTIVE To characterize and investigate potential associations between causes of pleural effusion and various clinical factors in a large cohort of affected cats. DESIGN Retrospective case series with nested cross-sectional study. ANIMALS 380 client-owned cats with a diagnosis of pleural effusion from January 1, 2009, through July 14, 2014, for which the cause of pleural effusion had been fully investigated.

Assessment of Lymphoid Molecular Clonality in Canine Thymoma.

The aim of this study was to document the molecular clonality of lymphoid cells in canine thymoma using polymerase chain reaction for antigen receptor rearrangement (PARR). Fifteen formalin-fixed and paraffin wax-embedded samples of canine thymoma were analyzed for T- and B-cell receptor clonality. Two of these 15 cases were excluded from the study due to insufficient DNA concentration.