Iatrogenic adrenal atrophy following oral corticotherapy is not reliably identified ultrasonographically in cats.
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Abstract
Background: In dogs, corticosteroid administration is known to decrease adrenal gland height when measured ultrasonographically. However, comparable information is lacking in cats. Objectives: i) Validate that the adrenal height of our control population without corticosteroid administration was similar to previous data, ii) determine effects of dose and duration of oral corticosteroid therapy on adrenal height, and iii) determine an adrenal size threshold to differentiate cats receiving corticosteroids or not. Animals and procedures: Adult cats (N = 308) that received abdominal ultrasonographic examination(s) were retrospectively recruited and allocated into 2 groups: those with and without oral corticosteroid use. Cats receiving corticosteroids were subdivided into 6 subgroups by dose (supraphysiologic, anti-inflammatory, or immunosuppressive) and duration of therapy (≤ 1 mo or > 1 mo). Results: > 0.21), and no useful adrenal height threshold was established. Conclusion and clinical relevance: Feline iatrogenic adrenal atrophy may be difficult to establish with ultrasonography, as only cats receiving anti-inflammatory corticosteroid doses for > 1 mo had a modest (< 1 mm) decrease in adrenal height.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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