Question of the Day
Monday February 15th, 2010You are presented with a 9-year old neutered male cat at your clinic.
He is an indoor/outdoor cat who has recently been losing weight. He doesn’t run around like he used to and wheezes now when he does move around. His owner relates that he hasn’t had much of an appetite the last few weeks and is vomiting every day or so lately.
On physical exam you note that the cat is thin, with mild dehydration and somewhat dark mucous membranes but a normal capillary refill time. On auscultation you hear inspiratory wheezes and somewhat irregular, muffled heart sounds.
T= 103.1 F (39.5 C), HR=124 bpm, RR =30 bpm
A lateral chest radiograph looks like the image below.
What is likely to have caused this illness?
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A - Pleural effusion
B - Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
C - Lung lobe torsion
D - Feline mediastinal lymphosarcoma
E - Hit by a car
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