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Ch 28 - chemical evaluation Flashcards

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1
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The most common chemistry tests that use strips are?

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Test pad analytes: urine pH, protein, glucose, ketones, blood (heme), bilirubin

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Care of chemical reagent strips are?

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stored at room temp., lid tightly closed, check expiration dates

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What are the two methods in using chemical reagent strips?

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dip and pipette

dip not as a good method because of other reagents can contaminate the test beside it - run off

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Result of urine chemical reagent stips are determined by?

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results determined by comparing strip to a color chart

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pH expresses the ____ ion concentration.

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hydrogen

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pH is the measure of the?

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degree of acidity or alkalinity

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Fresh sample of urine is needed to get?

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accurate results

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The pH of urine samples left at room temp. tends to increase as a result of?

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loss of carbon dioxide

delays in reading the reaction may lead to color changes and false readings

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What happens to urine pH that contains urease-producing bacteria because of left standing?

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pH increases

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10
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What organ plays a role in the acid-base regulation of the body?

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kidneys

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11
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The kidney must vary the pH of urine to compensate for the patient’s?

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diet and the products of metabolism

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12
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pH of a healthy animals urine depends largely on?

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diet

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Alkaline urine is usually found in animals that consume?

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plant-based diets

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14
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High-protein cereal diets or diets of animal origin cause?

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acidic urine

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Herbivores have ___ urine.

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alkaline

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Carnivores have ___ urine.

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acidic

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Omnivores have either ___ or ____ urine

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acidic or alkaline depending on what has been digested

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18
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What else can increase urine pH?

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stress and excitement (esp in cats) creating a transient glucosuria

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19
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What other factors can decrease urine pH?

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fever, starvation, a high-protein diet, acidosis, excessive muscular activity, and the administration of certain drugs

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20
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Increased pH may be caused by?

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alkalosis, high-fiber diets (plants), infection of the urinary tract with urease bacteria, the use of certain drugs, or urine retention such as paralysis

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If pH of urine is too acidic or too alkaline, what can happen?

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specific crystals or uroliths can form

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22
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How can the pH be maniupulated to help dissolve the solids or prevent them from forming?

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diet

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23
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Protein is usually ___ or in ___ amounts in normal urine.

Collected by ___ or _____.

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absent, trace

catheterization or cystocentesis

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24
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Protein levels in the urine may be measured by several methods including?

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reagent test strips, the sulfosalicylic acid turbidity test and urine protein/creatinine ratio

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25
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Reagent strips analysis is a?

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  • rapid, convenient, reasonably accurate method of determining urinary protein levels
  • Accuracy is variable
  • strips primarily detect albumin (protein soluble in water)
  • false positives may occur in alkaline urine
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26
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Sulfosalicylic acid turbidity test determines?

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urine protein levels via acid precipitation. The resultant turbidity is proportional to the concentration of protein.

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What is the advantage of the Sulfosalicylic acid turbidity test?

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It is equally sensitive to albumin and globulins and useful in confirming strip methods esp in alkaline urine

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28
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Sulfosalicylic acid turbidity test also measures ____ ____ proteins. which is what?

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Bence Jones

light chain proteins that can pass through the glomerulus

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29
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Urine protein/creatinine ratio aids in what?

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accurate measurement of protein loss in patients with low SG (ratio obtained by dividing the protein concentration by the creatinine concentration)

30
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The urine protein/creatinine ratio helps to confirm?

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significant amounts of protein in the urine

31
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Acute and chronic renal diseases lead to ?

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proteinuria

32
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Proteinuria is the result of?

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acute and chronic renal diseases - excessive protein in the urine
False negative with dilute urine

33
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Acute nephritis is characterized by _____, whereas chronic renal disease, the degree of proteinuria is qualitatively less.

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-marked protein with WBCs and casts in the urine

34
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With chronic renal disease, urine output is ____; therfore the total protein excreted is actutally quite significant.

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excessive with low specific gravity

35
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What is multiple myeloma?

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cancer of plasma cells - may produce large quanties of light chain proteins (Bence Jones proteins) that may leak through the glomerulus

36
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Proteinuria is also seen with traumatic ___ or bladder expression.

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catherization

37
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The presence of glucose in urine is called?

A

glucosuria or glycosouria (not normal)

38
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Glucose is filtered through the ___ and reabsorbed by the ____ tubules.

A

glomerulus

kidney

39
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Glucosuria does not occur in normal animals unless?

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the blood glucose level exceeds the renal threshold (approx. 170 - 180 mg/dL for dogs). At this conc, tubular resorption cannot keep up with the glomerular filtration of glucose and glucose passes into the urine

40
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Glucosuria often indicates?

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diabetes mellitus - as a result of a deficiency of insulin or an inability of insulin to function

41
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Insulin is necessary to transport ____ into body cells, and a deficienty causes ____ and the spilling of glucose into urine.

A

glucose

hyperglycemia

42
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False positives with glucosuria or glycosuria are?

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fear, excitement, restraint (esp cats)
the need to fast after a high-carbohydrate meal
some drugs including ascorbic acid (Vit. C), morphine, aspirin, cephalosporins, penicillin

43
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What test detects any sugar in the urine?

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Clinitest (reagent tablets)

44
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Ketones include?

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acetone, acetoacetic acid and B-hydroxybutyric acid

45
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Ketones are formed during?

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incomplete catabolism of fatty acids

46
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What is ketonuria?

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when fatty acids metabolism is not accompanied by sufficient carbohydrate metabolism, excess ketones are present in the urine

47
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A common cause of ketouria is

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ketonemia or ketosis in lactating cows and pregnant ewes and cows

48
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Ketonuria frequently occurs in animals with?

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  • diabetes mellitus - animal lacks the insulin necessary for carbohydrate metabolism
  • impaired liver function - impaired carbohydrate metabolism leads to fat serving as the main energy source esp when damaged liver cannot store adequate amounts of glycogen
49
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Impaired liver function because of?

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high-fat diet, starvation, fasting, anorexia

50
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How do you measure ketones?

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with reagent test strips that are sensitive to acetoacetic acid, less sensitive to acetone, and not sensitive to B-hydroxbutyric acid

51
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Bile pigments that are commonly detected in urine are?

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bilirubin and urobilinogen

52
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Only conjugated bilirubin is found in urine, Why?

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because unconjugated bilirubin does not pass through the glomerulus into the renal filtrate; it is bound to albumin, and it is not water soluble

53
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Bilirubin usually not found in the urine of?

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cats, pigs, sheep, or horses (renal threshold is many times that of dogs) (any bilirubin in cats urine is considered abnormal and suggests disease)

54
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Bilirubinuria is seen with a variety of conditions, including?

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bile duct obstruction, hemolytic anemia, and liver disease

55
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Conditions that cause biliary obstruction include?

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calculi in the bile duct, tumors in the area of the bile duct, acute enteritis, pancreatitis, and obstruction of the upper intestinal tract,

56
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Hemolytic anemia may also cause?

A

bilirubinuria, esp in dogs

57
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Bilirubinuria is detected with?

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Icotest - reagent tablets

58
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Icotest reagent tablets turn ____ in presence of bilirubin? The ____ and ___ of color change indicates the amount of bilirubin (concentration) present.

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  • blue or purple

- speed, degree

59
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Reagent strips are less sensitive than Icotest. T/F

A

True

60
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False negative results for bilirubin occur in urine that is exposed to?

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sunlight or artificial light

also when exposed to short-wave lights

61
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Hematuria is?
Color of urine may be?
Occult (not visible) blood must be detected by?

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the presence of intact RBCs in urine
cloudy, red, brown, or wine-colored
chemical analysis

62
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Hemoglobinuria?

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the presence of free hemoglobin in urine

63
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Myoglobinuira?

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the presence of myoglobinin in urine

64
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The presence of hematuria, hemoglobinuria, myoglobinuria may occur ____; the presence of one does not rule out the others

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simultaneously

65
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Hematuria is usually a sign of disease that is?

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causing bleeding somewhere in the urogenital tract

66
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Hemoglobinuria usually indicates ______ ______.
Positive for ____ but not RBCs in sediment.
Confirm with ___ test strip
Linked to?

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intravascular hemolysis
hemoglobin (red supernatant)
reagent
IMHA (Immune-mediated hemolytic anemia), incompatable blood transfusion, leptospirosis, babesiosis, metal toxicity, poisonous plants
- cattle being deprived of water and then drinking large amounts - blood cells burst

67
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Myoglobinuria is a?
Severe muscle damage causes?
Seen in horses with?

A

protein found in muscle
myoglobin to leak into blood and be excreted in urine (color is usually dark brown to almost black)
rhabdomyolysis

68
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Several methods have been used to try an distinguish hemoglobin from myoglobin but none of these methods are reliable . T or F

A

True

69
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Leukocytes in urine is tested by?
False positives possible, what can be done?
Reagent strip not valid for what species?

A

reagent strips
a microscope evaluation
feline

70
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Urinalysis analyzers still use?

A

dipsticks - many abnormalities cannot be detected by strip

71
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In vet. medicine, ____ is performed for every urinalysis.

A

microscopy

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