著者

Yuichi MIYAGAWA Ryota AKABANE Mizuki OGAWA Masayoshi NAGAKAWA Hirosumi MIYAKAWA Naoyuki TAKEMURA

出版者

JAPANESE SOCIETY OF VETERINARY SCIENCE

雑誌

Journal of Veterinary Medical Science (ISSN:09167250)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.82, no.12, pp.1828-1834, 2020 (Released:2021-01-05)

参考文献数

34

被引用文献数

6

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Serum cystatin C levels (CysC) are used in human medicine to document progressive kidney failure. Although CysC are not thought to be useful for the diagnosis of kidney dysfunction in dogs, there has been no specific consideration of body weight as a confounding issue. The aim of this study was to assess that the utility of CysC for the diagnosis of decreased glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in smaller vs. larger dogs. In clinically healthy dogs, serum creatinine (Cre) and CysC correlate directly with body weight; we found that dogs weighing <20 kg had significantly lower CysC than those weighing ≥20 kg (0.27 ± 0.07 vs. 0.34 ± 0.05 mg/l, respectively, P<0.001). In dogs weighing <20 kg, CysC had superior diagnostic accuracy for the detection of mildly decreased plasma iohexol clearance (PCio) (<1.8 ml/min/kg) compared with Cre (sensitivity 100% vs. 80.9% and specificity 100% vs. 85.7%); this was not true for dogs weighing ≥20 kg. Additionally, using a cut-off PCio of <1.8 ml/min/kg, the area under receiver-operating characteristics curve (AUC) of CysC was significantly higher than that of Cre in dogs weighing <20 kg (P<0.05); this was not true for dogs weighing ≥20 kg (P=0.695). In conclusion, CysC is a useful marker for the detection of a mild decreasing GFR compared with Cre in dogs weighing <20 kg.

著者

Yuichi MIYAGAWA Ryota AKABANE Mizuki OGAWA Masayoshi NAGAKAWA Hirosumi MIYAKAWA Naoyuki TAKEMURA

出版者

JAPANESE SOCIETY OF VETERINARY SCIENCE

雑誌

Journal of Veterinary Medical Science (ISSN:09167250)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.20-0201, (Released:2020-11-10)

被引用文献数

6

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Serum cystatin C levels (CysC) are used in human medicine to document progressive kidney failure. Although CysC are not thought to be useful for the diagnosis of kidney dysfunction in dogs, there has been no specific consideration of body weight as a confounding issue. The aim of this study was to assess that the utility of CysC for the diagnosis of decreased glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in smaller vs. larger dogs. In clinically healthy dogs, serum creatinine (Cre) and CysC correlate directly with body weight; we found that dogs weighing <20 kg had significantly lower CysC than those weighing ≥20 kg (0.27 ± 0.07 vs. 0.34 ± 0.05 mg/l, respectively, P<0.001). In dogs weighing <20 kg, CysC had superior diagnostic accuracy for the detection of mildly decreased plasma iohexol clearance (PCio) (<1.8 ml/min/kg) compared with Cre (sensitivity 100% vs. 80.9% and specificity 100% vs. 85.7%); this was not true for dogs weighing ≥20 kg. Additionally, using a cut-off PCio of <1.8 ml/min/kg, the area under receiver-operating characteristics curve (AUC) of CysC was significantly higher than that of Cre in dogs weighing <20 kg (P<0.05); this was not true for dogs weighing ≥20 kg (P=0.695). In conclusion, CysC is a useful marker for the detection of a mild decreasing GFR compared with Cre in dogs weighing <20 kg.

著者

Ryota AKABANE Touko SATO Atsushi SAKATANI Mizuki OGAWA Masayoshi NAGAKAWA Hirosumi MIYAKAWA Yuichi MIYAGAWA Hiroyuki TAZAKI Naoyuki TAKEMURA

出版者

JAPANESE SOCIETY OF VETERINARY SCIENCE

雑誌

Journal of Veterinary Medical Science (ISSN:09167250)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.19-0595, (Released:2020-02-26)

被引用文献数

3

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Information regarding the pharmacokinetics of oral sildenafil in dogs with pulmonary hypertension is limited. In this study, we examined the pharmacokinetics of oral sildenafil in a canine model of chronic embolic pulmonary hypertension (CEPH). The CEPH model was developed by repeatedly injecting microspheres into the pulmonary arteries. The pharmacokinetics of oral sildenafil at 1, 2 and 4 mg/kg was evaluated using four dogs with pulmonary hypertension in the fasted state. The plasma concentrations of sildenafil were determined using high-performance liquid chromatography, and pharmacokinetic parameters were calculated using a noncompartmental analysis. Sildenafil was well tolerated in this study. Proportional increments in the maximum plasma concentration and area under the curve extrapolated to infinity at drug doses of 1, 2 and 4 mg/kg were detected using a power model analysis. No significant differences were observed among the three doses in the time to maximum plasma concentration. The mean residence time and elimination half-life were slightly but significantly higher at a dose of 4 mg/kg than at a dose of 1 mg/kg.

著者

Ryota AKABANE Shotaro SHIMANO Atsushi SAKATANI Mizuki OGAWA Masayoshi NAGAKAWA Hirosumi MIYAKAWA Yuichi MIYAGAWA Naoyuki TAKEMURA

出版者

JAPANESE SOCIETY OF VETERINARY SCIENCE

雑誌

Journal of Veterinary Medical Science (ISSN:09167250)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.19-0350, (Released:2019-09-04)

被引用文献数

3

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Basic information related to the association between right heart echocardiographic parameters and invasive pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) in dogs with pulmonary hypetension (PH) is scarce. The aim of this study was to examine the association between conventional right heart echocardiographic parameters and invasive PAP by right heart catheterization (RHC) before and after PH. Five female beagle dogs regarded as clinically healthy were used. Echocardiography and RHC were conducted before and after creating chronic embolic pulmonary hypertension (CEPH) models. The acceleration time to ejection time ratio in pulmonary artery flow profile (AT/ET), the ratio of the pulmonary artery and aortic diameter in diastole (PA/Ao), the right pulmonary artery distensibility index by M-mode method (RPAD M-mode), the normalized right ventricular internal diameter in diastole (RVIDdn), and the normalized tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSEn) were correlated with the invasive systolic PAP (sPAP), mean PAP (mPAP) and diastolic PAP (dPAP). Multiple linear regression analysis identified AT/ET and RVIDdn as independent predictors of sPAP, PA/Ao and RVIDdn as independent predictors of mPAP, and PA/Ao and RPAD M-mode as independent predictors of dPAP. AT/ET and PA/Ao had high sensitivity and specificity for predicting CEPH. In conclusion, AT/ET, PA/Ao, RPAD M-mode, RVIDdn and TAPSEn were significantly correlated with invasive PAP and alterations in PA/Ao or AT/ET might enable clinicians to predict PH, even if tricuspid regurgitation is not observed.