Polioencephalomalacia and Heart Failure Secondary to Presumptive Thiamine Deficiency, Hepatic Lipidosis, and Starvation in 2 Abandoned Siamese Cats.
Vet Pathol
; 53(4): 840-3, 2016 07.
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| ID: mdl-26792845
ABSTRACT
Two 4-year-old spayed female Siamese cats were seized by the British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals after confinement to an abandoned housing unit without food for 9 weeks. One cat was found dead, and the second was euthanized within 24 hours due to neurologic deterioration despite therapy. Polioencephalomalacia of the caudal colliculus, hepatic lipidosis, cachexia, and congestive heart failure with cardiomyocyte atrophy were identified in both cats through postmortem examination and attributed to a prolonged period of starvation. Brain lesions were likely the result of thiamine deficiency (Chastek paralysis), which can be associated with both malnutrition and liver disease. This case highlights the importance of thiamine supplementation during realimentation of cats with hepatic lipidosis. Heart failure resulting from cachexia may have contributed to the death of the first cat and the morbidity of the second cat.
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MEDLINE
Contexto em Saúde:
6_ODS3_enfermedades_notrasmisibles
Problema de saúde:
6_cardiovascular_diseases
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6_digestive_diseases
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6_endocrine_disorders
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6_malnutrition_nutritional_deficiencies
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6_other_circulatory_diseases
Assunto principal:
Deficiência de Tiamina
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Doenças do Gato
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Encefalomalacia
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Insuficiência Cardíaca
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Lipidoses
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Hepatopatias
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Animals
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Vet Pathol
Ano de publicação:
2016
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Canadá