scholarly journals Fatal Pulmonary Hypertension and Right-Sided Congestive Heart Failure in a Kitten Infected with Aelurostrongylus abstrusus

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 2263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommaso Vezzosi ◽  
Stefania Perrucci ◽  
Francesca Parisi ◽  
Simone Morelli ◽  
Michela Maestrini ◽  
...  

Aelurostrongylus abstrusus is considered the most important respiratory nematode of domestic cats worldwide. This parasite inhabits the alveoli, alveolar ducts, and bronchioles and causes a subacute to chronic respiratory clinical disease. Clinical signs may occur in domestic cats of any age, though they are more often described in young animals. Physical examination, echocardiography, thoracic radiography, pulmonary and cardiac pathological findings, classical, and molecular parasitological analysis of a six-month-old kitten referred at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the University of Pisa (Italy) led to a diagnosis of parasitic bronchopneumonia caused by A. abstrusus, which was complicated by severe pulmonary hypertension (PH) and right-sided congestive heart failure (R-CHF) that caused the death of the animal. Cases of reversible PH associated with A. abstrusus infection have been seldom reported in cats. This is the first report of fatal PH and R-CHF in a kitten with clinical aelurostrongylosis.

2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. S159
Author(s):  
Yasutaka Inuzuka ◽  
Tetsuya Nadahama ◽  
Jyunya Seki ◽  
Souji Nishio ◽  
Shinsaku Takeda ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 358-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kosuke Hamagawa ◽  
Toshikazu Yabe ◽  
Kayo Hayato ◽  
Naohito Yamasaki ◽  
Hiroaki Kitaoka ◽  
...  

Hypertension ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 425-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Humann Matori ◽  
Soban Umar ◽  
Rangarajan D. Nadadur ◽  
Salil Sharma ◽  
Rod Partow-Navid ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (18) ◽  
pp. 2144
Author(s):  
Amandeep Goyal ◽  
Maya Safarova ◽  
Tarun Dalia ◽  
Venugopal Brijmohan Bhattad ◽  
Sagar Ranka ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
N. Saini ◽  
S.K. Uppal ◽  
A. Anand

Background: Radiography is widely used for diagnosis of congestive heart failure as it enables non-invasive assessment of cardiac size, shape and pulmonary vasculature. So, the present study was conducted to record the radiographic changes in dogs with congestive heart failure.Methods: Fifty-one dogs with cardiac insufficiency brought to Teaching Veterinary Hospital of GADVASU, showing one of the clinical signs of chronic cough, dyspnea, exercise intolerance, abdominal distension, syncope and cyanosis were selected and were subjected to Lateral and Ventro-dorsal chest radiography. Result: Dilated cardiomyopathy was present in 24 dogs. Radiographically, pulmonary edema, cardiomegaly, vessel congestion were more common in dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Valvular diseases were present in 16 dogs and radiographically left atrial (LA) dilatation was present in dogs with valvular diseases. Pericardial effusions were present in 11 dogs showing enlarged globoid heart radiographically.


1996 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 440-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.Barry Levine ◽  
Arlene B Levine ◽  
A.David Goldberg ◽  
Barbara Narins ◽  
Sidney Goldstein ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 704-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roopesh Singhal

AbstractUnilateral interruption of pulmonary artery is a rare congenital anomaly which is usually associated with other congenital heart disease. Even more rarely it may occur in isolation. Most of the cases are incidentally detected in adulthood. Some cases develop pulmonary hypertension for yet unknown reasons; such cases usually present in infancy with right heart failure. Surgical correction in such cases is associated with adverse outcomes. Heart lung transplantation should be considered in such patients. We report a 3-year-old boy with interruption of right pulmonary artery with severe pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure who was considered for heart lung transplantation.


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