INTERNATIONAL VETERINARY
RENAL PATHOLOGY SERVICE
- Important reminders from the IVRPS:
- The IVRPS will be closed January 20, 2025 in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr Day.
- To limit sample degradation, please ship samples overnight in a well-insulated container with multiple ice packs.
- If transport will be delayed, please contact us for alternative processing and handling options.
The Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) is proud to welcome
the International Veterinary Renal Pathology Service (IVRPS) back to the Department
of Veterinary Pathobiology (VTPB) and the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital (VMTH).
Our mission is to improve health care for individual patients with kidney disease and generate new knowledge about renal diseases in animals by expertly performing thorough pathologic evaluations of kidney specimens obtained from dogs and cats, and other animals.
The work performed by the International Veterinary Renal Pathology Service (IVRPS) is centered around the following operational goals:
- To perform histologic, ultrastructural, and immunohistologic examinations of kidneys that will assist veterinarians, especially nephrologists and specialists in academic and private practices, with the evaluation of their patients with kidney disease.
- To promptly communicate pathologic findings and their implications with each patient’s attending clinician(s).
- To collect detailed clinical information about the features, course, response to treatment, and outcome of pathologically well-defined kidney diseases in animals and integrate the information with the pathologic findings.
- To generate and maintain a database containing the clinical and pathologic information collected about pathologically well-defined kidney diseases in animals.
- To use the resources of the IVRPS to facilitate retrospective and prospective investigations that will advance understanding of the causes, treatment, and prevention of renal diseases in animals.
Resources
Sample Submission and Test Costs
Information
- Turnaround Times
- When to perform a renal biopsy? (PDF)
[Lees GE, Cianciolo RE, Clubb FJ Jr. Renal biopsy and pathologic evaluation of glomerular disease. Top Companion Anim Med. 2011 Aug;26(3):143-53. doi: 10.1053/j.tcam.2011.04.006. PMID: 21782145.] - Performing Renal Biopsy (PDF)
[Lees GE, Bahr A, Sanders MH. Procedures Pro Urology/Nephrology: Performing renal biopsy. NAVC Clinician’s Brief. 2010 Apr. 67-72.]
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Giving to the IVRPS
Contact Us
IVRPS-VMTH Central Rcvg
Attn: Hokamp/Nabity
Bldg 508, Room 120
College Station, TX 77843-4457
IVRPS@tamu.edu; 979-862-3842
Note: To submit samples, visit the Contact Us page.
