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Section: Follow-up
Optimal treatment for your pet requires a combination of home and professional veterinary care. Follow-up can be critical, especially if your pet does not rapidly improve. Diagnostic follow-up is extremely important in these patients.Urine protein:creatinine ratios, blood pressure, body weight, protein, and kidney values should be checked on a regular basis as directed by your veterinarian. Administer all prescribed medication and alert your veterinarian if you are experiencing problems treating your pet.Avoid using drugs that are harmful to the kidneys. Affected animals of breeds with suspected familial disorders should not be bred. Long term prognosis is guarded.
The kidneys consist of many thousand microscopic filtering units called glomeruli that filter water and small substances from the bloodstream. Glomerulonephritis is inflammation of these microscopic filtering...
Kidney amyloidosis is a rare disorder of protein metabolism in which abnormal deposits of protein called amyloid is deposited in the kidneys. This can lead to excessive protein loss in the urine and eventual...
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