Left perinephric abscess associated with nephrolithiasis and bladder calculi in a bitch.
Vet Rec
; 154(18): 562-5, 2004 May 01.
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| ID: mdl-15144002
ABSTRACT
An eight-year-old, entire female Pekingese cross, weighing 3.8 kg, had been inappetent with fever, depression, abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea for seven days. The radiographic and ultrasonographic findings were consistent with glomerulonephritis, nephrolithiasis in both kidneys, bladder calculi and an accumulation of fluid in the left perinephric space. The clinical signs, together with the results of the diagnostic imaging, suggested that this fluid could be pus. A definitive diagnosis of a subcapsular abscess in the left kidney was established when this kidney was removed surgically. A histopathological examination of the kidney revealed a diffuse suppurative interstitial nephritis, membranous glomerulonephritis and an abscess invading the perinephric adipose tissue from the renal cortex. Twelve months after surgery the dog remains clinically stable, but owing to the disease of its remaining kidney its long-term prognosis is poor.
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Assunto principal:
Abscesso
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Doenças do Cão
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Nefropatias
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Animals
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Vet Rec
Ano de publicação:
2004
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Article