EDUCATION

Feline Infectious Peritonitis (FIP): an in-depth look.

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Monitoring treatment

Good indicators of treatment success or failure are:

Globulin levels
Albumin/Globulin ratio
Alpha I acid glycoprotein (AGP) levels
Hematocrit* and lymphocyte count
* Hematocrit (Hct) should be monitored continuously to assess anemia

If the treatment is working, globulin levels should return to normal, A:G ratio should increase, AGP levels fall to normal, hematocrit level should stay above 20%, and lymphocyte count should return to normal. Weight gain is a useful indication of recovery in a non-effusive FIP case but less useful in effusive FIP because it may simply indicate that the amount of effusion has increased.

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