Table 1.
Pertinent laboratory results for a cat presented with a mild decrease in appetite and increased liver enzymes. ‘Week 0’ represents those results obtained on the day before surgical biopsies were collected. Chemotherapy (chlorambucil and prednisolone) was started a week later (‘week 1’), following a diagnosis of small-cell lymphoma
| Parameter (reference interval) | Week 0 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Month 1 | Month 3 | Month 9 | Month 18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alanine transaminase (ALT) (31–88 U/l) | 828 | 439 | 1275 | 1520 | 1680 | 748 | 482 | 360 |
| Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (12–29 U/l) | 214 | 166 | 300 | 209 | 255 | |||
| Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) (7–42 U/l) | 130 | 135 | 133 | 129 | 167 | 241 | 75 | 137 |
| Total bilirubin (0.1–0.3 mg/dl) | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.1 | ||
| Albumin (2.5–3.5 g/dl) | 3.0 | 2.4 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.0 | ||
| Globulin (2.9–5.4 g/dl) | 6.1 | 5.4 | 4.0 | |||||
| Prothrombin time (7.1–12.5 s) | 8.9 | |||||||
| Partial thromboplastin time (8.9–15.4 s) | 12.4 |