Avaliação dos parâmetros clínicos e da concentração sérica da proteína C reativa em cadelas com piomera.

Abstract

Pyometra is a disease of major importance in the medical and surgical clinics of small animals, characterized by an intrauterine inflammation with accumulation purulent discharge. In response the inflammatory process, the body responds both by the increase in cellular defense cells such as polymorphonuclear cells, but also by increased serum levels of some proteins, among them the C-reactive protein. Aiming to assess the concentration of C-reactive protein in dogs affected with pyometra, blood samples from 17 adult animals were collected, and the average result compared with values reported in the literature for healthy animals, also parallel the physiological parameters of the animals studied were evaluated . Five milliliters of blood were collected from the jugular vein and processed to obtain serum, which was quantified by PCR using the turbidimetric method ultrasensitive. There was an increase in the concentration of C-reactive protein, as well as changes in physiological parameters. It was concluded that this protein is of great importance as an aid in the laboratory diagnosis of cystic endometrial hipeslasia-pyometra complex.