We are testing a new, bedside meter to measure creatinine in foals. Creatinine helps show us how healthy the kidneys are. Traditional tests at a lab require about a teaspoon of blood, while this meter uses only a drop.

This meter is currently used for humans and goats. We hope to prove it is also accurate for foals so it might become a useful tool in hospital and field settings.

Eligibility: Any foal seen by the Equine Hospital that has an IV catheter placed or needs blood sampled for clinical reasons is eligible to enroll in the study.

We are testing a new, bedside meter to measure creatinine in pigs. Creatinine helps show us how healthy the kidneys are. Traditional tests at a lab require about a teaspoon of blood, while this meter uses only a drop.

This meter is currently used for humans and goats. We hope to prove it is also accurate for pigs so it might become a useful too in hospital and field settings.

Eligibility: Any pig seen by the Nemo Farm Animal Hospital that has an IV catheter placed or needs blood sampled for clinical reasons is eligible to enroll in the study.

IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) is a common primary gastrointestinal (GI) disease causing undesired symptoms such as poor appetite, vomiting, and diarrhea in dogs.  Dogs that do not respond to diet and antibiotic therapies are treated with corticosteroid medications that can have side effects that can make quality of life worse in some cases. Therefore, more targeted immunotherapies are needed to inhibit the inflammation seen with this disease.

Dietary management of cats with chronic kidney disease (CKD) can be very complicated due to the need to balance many changed dietary needs to keep the CKD from worsening, such as keeping protein relatively low while also maintaining optimal potassium and phosphorous levels. We are examining whether feeding a hydrolyzed protein diet will provide more amino acids while also keeping protein levels low enough to help prevent muscle wasting while still optimizing the other needs.

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At CRES we provide expert diagnostic and treatment options for a wide range of medical conditions in adults and foals, including renal, metabolic/endocrine, cardiac, respiratory, gastrointestinal, neurologic, ophthalmic conditions and liver disorders. Internal medicine cases are often challenging and an attention to detail is critical to working out what condition your horse might have.