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At The Laboratory With My Pet’s Doctor: Urinalysis
In an ongoing series, MyPetsDoctor.com has informed you about laboratory tests your pet is likely to have performed as routine screening tests, as preoperative tests, and as tests designed to diagnose illness. Today we’re going to look at tests commonly performed on urine. The most basic is urinalysis, which is performed in two parts. First, let’s […]
Continue ReadingAt The Laboratory With My Pet’s Doctor, Chemistry Profile II
In our ongoing series about how and why your pet’s doctor chooses laboratory tests, and what the results mean, we continue our look at the Chemistry Profile. Click here to read Part 1. Click here to read about the Complete Blood Count (CBC). Click here to read about urinalysis. Glucose. Everybody knows glucose. It’s also […]
Continue ReadingAt The Laboratory With My Pet’s Doctor, Chemistry Profile I
In the last edition of “At The Laboratory With My Pet’s Doctor”, we studied the details of the Complete Blood Count. Today we will look at a battery of tests called the “Chemistry Profile, Part One“. Part Two is available by clicking here. Read about urinalysis by clicking here. In the Complete Blood Count, we were examining […]
Continue ReadingAt The Laboratory With My Pet’s Doctor, Complete Blood Count CBC
Your pet’s doctor finds many reasons to perform laboratory tests for your pet. Sometimes tests are run as a “baseline”, a set of tests by which to measure future performance of the body. That way, if your pet ever becomes ill, he can say, “When he was “x” years of age, “normal” for him was […]
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