This chapter deals with feline inflammatory liver disease, focusing on epidemiology, signalment, diagnosis, and therapy for feline inflammatory disease. Prognosis will depend on the severity of the disease. Cats with ascites similarly have a guarded prognosis as this is likely to represent the ...
KEY PROGNOSTIC POINTS The prognosis for idiopathic hepatic lipidosis is good with nutrition and other support; secondary lipidosis has a poorer prognosis due to the underlying disease. OVERVIEW OF THE ISSUE There are a number of specific liver diseases unique to the cat and very different than the...
The prognosis must be guarded, and graft surgery or enucleation may be necessary. Miscellaneous conditions Corneal dystrophy, degeneration, and neoplasia are uncommon conditions in cats. Of these, lipid corneal degeneration, corneal dermoid, and limbal melanomas are most common, and they are managed...
Feline Immunodeficiency Virus (FIV): Symptoms, Prevention, and More Feline Hepatic Lipidosis: Fatty Liver Disease in Cats Feline Renal Failure: A Cat Kidney Disease Leptospirosis in Dogs: Disease Facts, Treatment, and Prevention
- What is my pet's prognosis? Guide to Making Decisions About Cancer Therapy- Eli Lilly and Company at Oncolink, University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center. Although this guide is written for human cancer patients, it equally applies to animal cancer patients. ...
Feline haemobartonellosis: clinical findings, diagnosis, prognosis and therapy. Recent remarks Clinical toxoplasmosis was diagnosed in 15 cats by correlating serologic evidence of infection and clinical signs to either response to therapy or histopat... S Gretillat - 《Annales De Medecine Veterinaire...
lymph nodes, lymphovascular invasion, a histological grade III, and neoplasms that are greater than 3 cm in diameter. The interval between diagnosis and death is often short, less than 1 year, but the range is wide. Well-differentiated tumors (histological grade I) have a good prognosis. ...
given the poor prognosis, ante mortem diagnosis of FIP can be a challenge, requiring a combination of evidence gathered from patient signalment, medical history, physical examination, imaging, and laboratory findings. There is no single test, other than histopathology and immunohistochemistry, that wil...
SAA is the acute phase protein that responds fastest to various inflammatory and infectious diseases in cats. It is a biomarker of acute infection and inflammatory disease and plays an important role in disease treatment monitoring and prognosis. ...
Take a look at the chapter oncat diabetes treatmentand its prognosis. why the pancreas is important The pancreas is an endocrine gland situated in the upper abdomen and located next to the liver, duodenum and stomach. The pancreas has the following functions: ...