Today’s case is a 9 year old male neutered Golden Retriever with a dry, retching cough of 6 months duration. Initially treated with antibiotics, cough improved but was still intermittently present. In the last three weeks, the dog has progressed to coughing 2-3 times per hour, which has improved to only 2-3 times a day with reinstitution of antibiotic therapy.
Is it legit to say that fat tissue opacity in the pleural space is related to obesity?
Yes, there is fat in the mediastinum ventrally that causes some retraction of the lung lobes on the lateral projections.