Veterinary ECC Small Talk

Feline Asthma: 10 Bits of Jibber Jabber


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Dyspnoeic cat with wheezes and an expiratory ‘push’ – the classic asthmatic cat, right?! In this episode I discuss this syndrome according to the following points:

  1. What do we call this syndrome?
  2. Who gets feline asthma?
  3. Pathogenesis
  4. Clinical findings
  5. Diagnosis
  6. Thoracic radiography
  7. Treatment – Acute crisis
  8. Treatment – Sub-acute and Chronic
  9. Alternative or novel therapies?
  10. Cyclosporine
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    Some papers that informed this episode:

    Cooper ES, Syring RS, King LG. Pneumothorax in cats with a clinical diagnosis of feline asthma: 5 cases (1999-2000). J Vet Emerg Crit Care 2003. 13(2):95–101.

    Liu DT, Silverstein DC. Feline secondary spontaneous pneumothorax: A retrospective study of 16 cases (2000–2012). J Vet Emerg Crit Care 2014. 24(3):316–325.

    Nafe LA, Leach SB. Treatment of feline asthma with ciclosporin in a cat with diabetes mellitus and congestive heart failure. J Fel Med Surg 2014. Online. Accepted 6 November 2014.

    Reinero CR. Advances in the understanding of pathogenesis, and diagnostics and therapeutics for feline allergic asthma. Vet J 2011. 190(1):28-33.

    Trzil JE, Reinero CR. Update on Feline Asthma. Vet Clin Sm Anim 2014. 44:91-105.

    Venema C, Patterson C. Feline asthma: What’s new and where might clinical practice be heading? J Fel Med Surg 2010. 12:681-692. 

    Whitehouse W, Viviano K. Update in Feline Therapeutics: Clinical use of 10 emerging therapies. J Fel Med Surg 2015. 17:220–234.

     

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    Veterinary ECC Small TalkBy Shailen Jasani MA VetMB MRCVS DipACVECC

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