Jonathan Elliott

TL;DR: The Consensus Statement is intended to be a guide for veterinarians, but it is not a statement of standard of care or a substitute for clinical judgment.

TL;DR: Urine testing that will detect proteinuria should be a component of the clinical evaluations of dogs and cats under all circumstances that prompt their veterinarians to also perform comprehensive hematologic and serum biochemical evaluations.

TL;DR: Plasma creatinine concentration and proteinuria were very highly related to survival and are of prognostic significance despite the relatively low concentrations of proteinuria typical of chronic renal disease in cats.

TL;DR: Summer pastures appear to induce metabolic responses in some ponies, leading to expression of the prelaminitic phenotype, which includes hypertension as well as insulin resistance, which may enable improved countermeasures to be devised to prevent laminitis.

TL;DR: It is suggested that feeding a diet specifically formulated to meet the needs of cats with CRF, together with phosphate binding drugs if required, controls hyperphosphataemia and secondary renal hyperparathyroidism, and is associated with an increased survival time.