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Is there an inexpensive, readily available test to diagnose or screen for the disease? Keratoconjunctivitis sicca (KCS) is not extremely common but it is very inexpensive and easy to screen for, so making a Schirmer tear test (STT) part of a regular screening program would be a sensible thing to do. Offering an echocardiogram to screen for cardiomyopathy for every senior cat, on the other hand, would probably not be sensible, due to high price and low availability, even though hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a relatively common disease in cats. Here is a link to a client education video on screening eye tests for dogs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_RGk2UEdgs.