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12 year old DSH

January 14, 2016 By Allison Zwingenberger

Today’s case is a 12-year-old female neutered domestic short hair cat with intermittent pyrexia and vomiting. What are your findings?

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Findings

There is moderate wet hair coat artifact on the body wall. The cardiac silhouette is enlarged and moderately rounded. There is increased opacity in the pleural space with retraction of the lung lobes and pleural fissure lines. The pulmonary vasculature is mildly enlarged. There is an increased interstitial pattern in the right caudal lung lobe on the ventrodorsal projection. The peritoneal detail is poor.

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Differential Diagnosis

Cardiomegaly – pericardial effusion, cardiomyopathy, hypervolemia

Pleural effusion – Transudate, exudate, chyle, hemorrhage

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Diagnosis

There was significant pericardial effusion on echocardiography. The spleen aspirates showed suspicion of lymphoma. Further workup was not pursued.

Filed Under: Case of the Day, Feline, Radiographs, Thorax

Comments

  1. Dr. Parker Keil says

    January 14, 2016 at 7:51 am

    Would you say there is some distention of the CVC as well?

    • Allison Zwingenberger says

      January 19, 2016 at 1:16 pm

      That’s definitely something to look for with the pericardial effusion, but I don’t think the cvc is particularly enlarged in this cat.

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