Volume: 51 Issue: 1
Year: 2020, Page: 48-51,
Received: Aug. 2, 2019 Accepted: Oct. 13, 2019 Published: Jan. 1, 2020
The present study was conducted in anaemic cats presented to the University Veterinary Hospital, Kokkalai and Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex, Mannuthy. They were subjected to a detailed physical examination, blood smear and faecal sample examination and haematology to reach an etiological diagnosis and to assess the severity of anaemia. Xenotransfusion with dog blood was carried out in 10 severely anaemic cats. Clinical outcome and variation in haematological parameters before and 24 hours after the transfusion was evaluated.
Keywords: cat, anaemia, haematology, xenotransfusion
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Shaheena, A. P. S., Unny, N. M., Usha, N. P., Ajithkumar, S., Lakshmanan, B. and Sunanda C. 2020. Clinico haematological studies on xenotransfusion in cats. J. Vet. Anim. Sci. 51(1): 48-51.