VetVaultGuides to your pet’s lab results
Lab reports are written for vets. These guides explain the values that come up most often in cats and dogs, what makes them go up or down, and what your vet may want to check next. They are educational, not veterinary advice.
How to read a cat blood test
The complete blood count and chemistry panel, value by value.
Cat kidney values explained
Creatinine, BUN, SDMA, urine specific gravity, UPC and the IRIS stages of chronic kidney disease.
Cat T4 and hyperthyroidism
What a high or borderline T4 means, follow-up tests and monitoring during treatment.
SDMA in cats
What a high SDMA means, why it can rise before creatinine, and when to recheck.
Cat liver enzymes
High ALT, ALP, GGT or bilirubin: what each means in cats and why a cat that stops eating needs a vet.
Cat diabetes blood tests
Glucose, fructosamine, glucose curves and stress hyperglycemia, explained for owners.
Dog kidney values
Creatinine, BUN, SDMA, urine concentration and the IRIS stages for dogs.
Also in Türkçe: Kedi böbrek değerleri and Română: Valori renale la pisici.