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Hello,
I have a 4 years old, neutered male cat. And we are dealing with IMHA for 1,5 years. I will give the details at the end of the post and my question is;
what attached iron methabolism test tells us?
(We have an appointment with the vet this week, so I want to study beforehand and ask him the right questions).
Thank you so much for help in advance.
Details of his medical history:
After not getting response to all possible meds, Robin Panda had splenectomy at 11th of March. Since then, he was on 2mg/kg depomedrol (every 14 days) and 2 mg Chlorambucile every other day. And he even hit the HCT 38! Our vet stopped depomedrol injections in the beginning of May. My cat was stable since then. Till this week.
His HCT is dropping slowly and is now %29.
By the way; his immune system is suppressed a lot recently, probably bcs of the chlorambucile (WBC is at 2,09).
I suspected he is losing iron (because his MCV and MCHC values were decreasing gradually, since the splenectomy). So, insisted my vet to run an iron panel tests. Here are the results.
I have a 4 years old, neutered male cat. And we are dealing with IMHA for 1,5 years. I will give the details at the end of the post and my question is;
what attached iron methabolism test tells us?
(We have an appointment with the vet this week, so I want to study beforehand and ask him the right questions).
Thank you so much for help in advance.
Details of his medical history:
After not getting response to all possible meds, Robin Panda had splenectomy at 11th of March. Since then, he was on 2mg/kg depomedrol (every 14 days) and 2 mg Chlorambucile every other day. And he even hit the HCT 38! Our vet stopped depomedrol injections in the beginning of May. My cat was stable since then. Till this week.
His HCT is dropping slowly and is now %29.
By the way; his immune system is suppressed a lot recently, probably bcs of the chlorambucile (WBC is at 2,09).
I suspected he is losing iron (because his MCV and MCHC values were decreasing gradually, since the splenectomy). So, insisted my vet to run an iron panel tests. Here are the results.
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