1. [Treatment of severe neutropenias in dogs and cats with filgrastim].
- Author
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Kraft W and Kuffer M
- Subjects
- Anemia, Aplastic drug therapy, Anemia, Aplastic veterinary, Animals, Antineoplastic Agents adverse effects, Cats, Dogs, Estrogens physiology, Filgrastim, Leukopenia blood, Leukopenia drug therapy, Leukopenia veterinary, Neutropenia drug therapy, Neutropenia etiology, Parvoviridae Infections blood, Parvoviridae Infections veterinary, Recombinant Proteins therapeutic use, Species Specificity, Syndrome, Cat Diseases, Dog Diseases, Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor therapeutic use, Neutropenia veterinary
- Abstract
The recombinant hG-CSF Filgrastim was used in severe cases of neutropenia in the dog caused by parvovirosis, hyperestrogenism, treatment with antineoplastic agents, an aplastic syndrome and in the cat in cases of infectious panleukopenia. Increases of the numbers of leukocytes were observed in all groups of diseases in the dog, but not in feline infectious panleukopenia. Filgrastim is indicated in neutropenias associated with disturbance of the general condition accompanied by fever, but not in cases of transitory leukopenias.
- Published
- 1995