Research Communications of the 24th ECVIM-CA Congress

Proteinuric cats (UPC>0.4) were 15.4% in CKD cats, while 15.9% could be substaged as bordeline proteinuric (0.2) In cats, proteinuria tends to increase with aging (p < 0.0001) and with worsening of the nephropathy (p = 0.002). Proteinuria was related to the anaemic state in CKD cats: UPC significantly increases with RBC count, Hb, Ht and MCH decreasing (p < 0.0001 and p = 0.049 respectively). Proteinuria tends to increase with WBC count (p = 0.0001) and neutrophils increasing (p = 0.0001), while tends to decrease with lymphocytes increasing (p = 0.008). Furthermore, UPC significantly increases in presence of an inflammatory serum protein electrophoretic pattern.