Today’s case is a 5-year-old male neutered domestic medium hair cat with tachypnea (RR=50) and abdominal effort when breathing. What’s your interpretation?
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Can this case be differentiated from asthma without CT/BAL? As I imagine glucocorticoids would be a bad idea for this cat!