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Heska E.R.D.Health Screen Urine Tests

Benefits
Detect albumin at a sensitivity up to 30 times higher than conventional dipsticks, providing the most sensitive measure of kidney damage available.

Alert you to the presence of kidney damage that could be caused by many common inflammatory, infectious, metabolic and neoplastic diseases.

Excellent monitoring tools that indicate the severity of disease, treatment success and progression of kidney damage.

Features
Quick results in less than 5 minutes, allowing additional blood/urine sampling if needed while patient is still present.

Extremely accurate, no false positive results.

Semi-quantitative. Shows negative, low, medium, high and very high positive test results.

The kidneys can act as a window to an animal's internal health.
The kidneys filter an animal's entire blood volume every 30 minutes.

Many disease conditions can result in the release of toxins or other damaging factors into the blood.

Those toxins can damage the kidneys during the filtration process.


Feline Diseases That Can Produce Microalbuminuria	Canine Diseases That Can Produce Microalbuminuria
Dental disease Cholangiohepatitis Immune-mediated diseases Inflammatory bowel disease FeLV FIV FIP Heartworm disease Ehrlichiosis Diabetes mellitus Hypertension Hyperthyroidism Neoplasia	Dental disease Pyoderma Immune-mediated diseases Inflammatory bowel disease Heartworm disease Ehrlichiosis Lyme disease Diabetes mellitus Hyperadrenocorticism Cushing’s disease) Hypertension Neoplasia

Now you can detect even small amounts of kidney damage with the Canine and Feline E.R.D.-Healthscreen® Urine Tests.

The E.R.D.-HealthScreen® Urine Tests detect small amounts of albumin in the urine ("microalbuminuria"). Microalbuminuria (MA) has been clinically defined as levels of albumin in the urine greater than normal (1 mg/dL) and less than overt proteinuria (30 mg/dL) at a standardized specific gravity of 1.010.

Conventional urine tests (urine specific gravity, BUN, creatinine) don't detect kidney damage until ~70% of kidney function is lost.

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