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The Geriatric Cat Clinic
The RVC’s Geriatric Cat Clinic was established with the aim of researching the common conditions of older cats and to
help with the care and medical management of cats that attend the clinic. Since it started, in 1992, more than 4,000 cats have come to the clinic.
Eligible cats benefit from free wellness health checks, including a full
clinical examination, blood pressure measurement and regular blood and urine tests to check renal and thyroid function.
Regular monitoring of the geriatric
cats attending the clinic has provided new insights into feline chronic kidney disease (CKD) and related mineral
and bone disorder, hyperthyroidism
and hypertension, and supported
the development of new diets, pharmaceutical products and diagnostic tests related to these conditions.
The clinic is currently running a diet
trial to investigate whether a specially formulated diet may be beneficial to cats in the very earliest stage of CKD.
For more information about the clinic, eligibility criteria and the diet trial, see the article in the summer issue of Clinical Connections,
which can be found online: www.rvc.ac.uk/clinical-connections