@article{WoodwardBrossa:31766,
author = "Woodward Brossa, Michelle and Gascón Pérez, Manuel",
title = "{Trastornos de coagulación en enteropatía con pérdida
proteica}",
year = "2015",
note = "In this study a biographical review was made regarding
protein-losing enteropathy in dogs, their symptomatology,
diagnostic testing and treatment used on these types of
patients. The study focuses especially on the relationship
that protein-losing enteropathy has with the appearance of
pulmonary thromboembolism due to the enteric loss of
Antithrombin III. Three clinical cases referred by the
Veterinary Clinic Hospital of Zaragoza with protein-losing
enteropathy symptomatology (chronic diarrhea, vomiting,
progressive weight loss, and ascites) are described in
detail, one of them with confirmed pulmonary
thromboembolism in the postmortem examination. The blood
samples of the three dogs showed the presence of
hypoproteinemia and hypoalbumenemia. Lastly, a discussion
is made of the three cases, based on the differential
diagnoses of the symptomology that was manifested, the
results of the diagnostic tests, and an examination of the
errors in the diagnostic approach of each case, giving
recommendations of clinical management of an animal with
this symptomatology. An insistence is made of the need to
carry out coagulation testing in the patients with
protein-losing enteropathy due to their predisposition and
risk of suffering pulmonary thromboembolism.",
}