Abstract

The 51Cr‐EDTA test is a valuable clinical tool for screening intestinal diseases in dogs. The test is performed by calculating the percentage of recovery from urine of a PO‐ingested dose of 51Cr‐EDTA after 6 or 24 hours. Careful urine collection is a practical limitation of this test in dogs, and our goal was to develop a simpler test that measures 51Cr‐EDTA in blood. A 51Cr‐EDTA absorption test was simultaneously performed on urine and serum 43 times in healthy Beagle Dogs. Timed blood samples were withdrawn, and urine was collected during a 6‐hour period. Percentages of the ingested dose were then calculated in urine and serum. The mean ± standard deviation (range) percentage in urine after 6 hours was 14.07 ± 8.72% (3.81‐34.18%), whereas results in serum from samples taken at 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 hours were 0.49 ± 0.45% (0.02‐2.13%), 0.75 ± 0.52% (0.03‐1.89%), 0.82 ± 0.57% (0.13‐2.21%), 0.70 ± 0.53% (0.12‐1.99%), and 0.47 ± 0.44% (0.11‐1.79%), respectively. The results for blood specimens showed good concordance with those for urine, especially for the samples taken at 4 hours (r= 0.89). Moreover, the correlation between urine and blood was better when the sum of the percentages of the recovered analyte from various blood samples was compared with urine. The correlation coefficient when summing 4 blood samples was excellent (r= 0.97) and remained excellent when summing only 2 blood samples taken at 3 and 5 hours (r= 0.95) or at 3 and 4 hours (r= 0.94). We conclude that a serum 51Cr‐EDTA test determined by summing successive blood samples provides an easier means of estimating small intestinal permeability in dogs and gives results comparable to those of the 6‐hour urine test.

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