Research Communications of the 24th ECVIM-CA Congress

Although serum canine CP remained within a relatively narrow concentration range in healthy dogs, moderate individuality was detected. Moderate changes in serum canine CP (6.4 mg/L) between sequential measurements are needed to be considered clinically relevant, and using a population-based reference interval may or may not be appropriate for serum canine CP. Using the MCD with the previously determined median canine CP concentration (4.9 mg/L) for the reference sample group yielded a serum canine CP concentration close to the upper limit of the previously established reference interval (11.9 mg/L), showing that the reference interval for serum cCP (0.9-11.9 mg/L) is within reasonable limits.