Journal article
Clinical and immunologic assessment of sepsis and the systemic inflammatory response syndrome in cats
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Vol.238(7), pp.890-897
2011
Abstract
Objective
To compare clinical findings and inflammatory mediator production among cats with sepsis, cats with noninfectious systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), and healthy cats.
Design
Case-control study.
Animals
Cats with sepsis (n = 16) or SIRS (19) and 8 healthy control cats.
Procedures
Clinical variables were recorded for each cat, and plasma tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and interleukin (IL)-1β activities and IL-6 and CXC chemokine ligand (CXCL)-8 concentrations were determined at initial evaluation.
Results
Clinicopathologic abnormalities associated with sepsis in cats included a high band neutrophil percentage, eosinopenia, hyponatremia, hypochloremia, hypoalbuminemia, hypocalcemia, and hyperbilirubinemia. When the sepsis and SIRS groups were compared, the only significant differences in the CBC and plasma biochemical findings were band neutrophil percentage and albumin concentration. Cats with sepsis had significantly greater plasma TNF activity than did healthy cats and were more likely to have detectable concentrations of IL-6 than were cats with SIRS or healthy cats. Plasma IL-1β activity did not differ among groups, and CXCL-8 was not detectable in most (32/43) cats. Mortality rate was not significantly greater for cats with sepsis (7/16) than for cats with SIRS (5/19). Plasma IL-1β activity and IL-6 and chloride concentrations were the only variables correlated with nonsurvival in the sepsis group.
Conclusions and Clinical Relevance
Cats with sepsis may have various clinicopathologic abnormalities but are more likely to have a high band neutrophil percentage and hypoalbuminemia than cats with noninfectious SIRS. Plasma interleukin-1β activity and plasma IL-6 and chloride concentrations may be useful prognostic biomarkers for septic cats.
Details
- Title
- Clinical and immunologic assessment of sepsis and the systemic inflammatory response syndrome in cats
- Authors/Creators
- A.E. DeClue (Author/Creator)C. Delgado (Author/Creator)C-h Chang (Author/Creator)C.R. Sharp (Author/Creator)
- Publication Details
- Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Vol.238(7), pp.890-897
- Publisher
- American Veterinary Medical Association
- Identifiers
- 991005540405407891
- Copyright
- © 2019
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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