Ricardo Lopes

Beyond Modified Transudates: Diagnostic Performance of the Feline Infectious Peritonitis Effusion Index on the Sysmex XN-1000V

The antemortem clinical and clinicopathological diagnosis of feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) remains challenging, particularly when effusions deviate from the classically protein-rich, low-to-moderate-cellularity phenotype. The FIP Effusion Index, defined as the ratio of delt...

The Canine Leishmaniosis Proteinogram: A Reference Serum Electrophoretic Atlas of 5544 Dogs over 18 Years

Serum protein capillary electrophoresis can characterise dysproteinaemia in dogs tested for canine leishmaniosis (CanL) as an integrated clinicopathological phenotype of humoral immune activation. This retrospective laboratory-based study evaluated serum protein electrophoretic p...