ABCD Fact Sheet
https://www.abcdcatsvets.org/portfolio-item/factsheets-tools-for-feline-infectious-peritonitis-fip/
FIP Diagnostic Flowcharts
https://www.abcdcatsvets.org/portfolio-item/factsheets-tools-for-feline-infectious-peritonitis-fip/
FIP Differential Diagnoses
FIP Diagnostic Tests
Glasgow University’s Vet Diagnostic Services is a world leading expert service in terms of their FIP expertise, their testing procedures and equipment, their clinical expert FIP staff and their turnaround times for results with accompanying comments and feedback re FIP specifically and also differential diagnoses etc. They are the only supplier of a world class FIP diagnostic profile constructed by them based on many thousands of hours of research profiling FIP based on fifteen years’ worth of data from the Veterinary Diagnostic Services’ database: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/bohvm/vetdiagnostics/researchprojects/fip/
Glasgow University Veterinary Diagnostic Services’ “FIP Profile”
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/bohvm/vetdiagnostics/pricelist/
Available FIP Diagnostic Tests
Anaemia Examples and Treatment
FIP Risk Factors and Symptoms
The Urgency of Treatment
Clinical presentation, blood tests, and Vet suspicion being high enough based on using the ABCD diagnostic toolkit, as well as seeking advice and support from the UK Vet FIP Expert team via fipadvice@gmail.com, supports treating the cat with legal UK Vet FIP treatment pending test results.
Glasgow University Veterinary Diagnostic Services offer a comprehensive, cheap FIP Profile, which does not require your cat to suffer invasive biopsies.
Please tell your Vet about the Glasgow FIP profile to save your cat from suffering unnecessary procedures and to save your cat from death. Too many of the tests we see Vets send to external labs are incorrect, insufficient, and take many days to return. When they do return, they are often incomplete or provide irrelevant results in helping make a firm FIP diagnosis.
Too many cats are being denied readily available legal UK Vet treatment because test results take too long to be returned, and the cat dies waiting.
3 or 4 doses, when FIP suspicion is high enough, of legal UK Vet treatment should provide the answer to whether it is FIP or not by the positive response (or lack of).
Links
https://rvc.padlet.org/stayler1/staylerFIPowners
https://rvc.padlet.org/stayler1/staylerFIPvets
http://www.abcdcatsvets.org/feline-infectious-peritonitis/
https://icatcare.org/advice/feline-infectious-peritonitis-fip/
Wet FIP Example
Abdominal fluid removal – must be done with extra caution as it removes lots of protein from the body suddenly (the Wet FIP cat may eat ravenously to replenish its proteins which are taken by the FIP effusion. It is vital they are fed high protein food to help them.)
Chest fluid removal – is essential when the cat has difficulty breathing.
(Video contributed by A. Lambrecht)
Wet FIP Diagnostics – Video Example of a Rivalta’s Test
(Video contributed by A. Lambrecht)