Thorax

Allison Zwingenberger

University of California Davis

Publication Date: 2010-01-13

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History

11 year old female neutered domestic short haired cat with coughing 10-15x/day.

Findings

3 views are available for review. The patient is obese. There is a severe bronchial pattern throughout the lungs especially in the caudal lung lobes. There are multiple focal areas of more interstitial pattern in the cranial lung lobes. The cardiac silhouette and the pulmonary vasculature appear to be within normal limits.

Diagnosis

The appearance of the lungs is suggestive of severe feline asthma, inflammatory lower airway disease including infectious or non infectious processes.

Discussion

The owner declined advanced diagnostics. The cat improved on a 10 day course of doxycycline, but still coughs 1-2x/day. Predisone did not seem to help the symptoms.

Enlarge the images to see the donuts and thickened bronchi. Chronic lower airway disease can be exacerbated by bacterial and mycoplasmal secondary infections, and antibiotic therapy can be helpful.