Overview

• May be divided into isoenzymes found principally in skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle, liver and red blood cells - not organ specific, but useful in assessment of tissue damage.
• Longer half-life than creatine kinase.

Sampling

Tests

Methodologies

• Varies between laboratories (electrophoresis needed for LDH isoenymes).

Availability

• Widely available.

Technique (intrinsic) limitations

• Test results most useful when interpreted in conjunction with other laboratory results and clinical findings.

LDH without isoenzymes is so non-specific that it is rarely interpretively useful.

Result Data

Further Reading

Publications

Refereed papers

• Recent references from PubMed and VetMedResource.
• Meredith A & Rayment L (2000) Liver disease in rabbits. Sem Avian Exotic Pet Med 9 (3), 146-152.
• Benson K G & Paul-Murphy J (1999) Clinical pathology of the domestic rabbit: acquisition and interpretation of samples. Vet Clin North Am Exotic Anim Pract 2 (3), 539-552 PubMed.

Other sources of information

• Varga M (2014) Textbook of Rabbit Medicine. 2nd edn. Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier, UK.
• Wesche P (2014) Clinical Pathology. In: BSAVA Manual of Rabbit Medicine. Eds: Meredith A & Lord B. BSAVA, UK. pp 124-137.
• Saunders R A & Rees Davies R (2005) Notes on Rabbit Internal Medicine. Blackwells, UK.