Pathological and clinicopathological features of canine and feline bladder disease

Abstract

Dogs and cats commonly present to veterinary hospitals with urinary bladder disease, but despite their clinical importance and comparative potential to human diseases, bladder diseases in Australian dogs and cats are under investigated. In veterinary pathology, insufficient levels of diagnostic agreement can occur, and this is influenced by sample quality as well as the pathologist's own experience, training, and cognitive biases. Logistic regression is a statistical technique which, when applied to veterinary histopathology, could improve pathologist agreement. Thus, there were two overarching goals of this thesis-to investigate the pathology and comparative potential of canine and feline urinary bladder disease in Australia, and to explore the utility of logistic regression modelling in improving inter-pathologist agreement. This project conducted a retrospective evaluation of pathology cases of canine and feline urinary bladder tissue from the veterinary pathology archives of the