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Thoracic radiographs and Doppler echocardiography often permit rapid diagnosis to guide treatment. Thoracocentesis with pleural fluid analysis is indicated in cats with pleural effusion.
Placebo-controlled studies in people have revealed that the only treatment strategies proven effective for pancreatitis are fluid therapy, pain management, and nutritional support. These are also the mainstay of therapy for treating cats with pancreatitis.
Background: Pancreatitis in cats, although commonly diagnosed, still presents many. diagnostic and management challenges. Objective: To summarize the current literature as it relates to etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management of pancreatitis in cats and to arrive at clinically relevant.
Pancreatitis is amenable to antemortem diagnosis by integrating all clinical and diagnostic information available, and recognizing that acute pancreatitis is far easier to diagnose than chronic pancreatitis.
A liquid diet must be fed through a nasoesophageal tube (see Treatment Guidelines for Acute Pancreatitis in Cats); a variety of diets will pass through an esophagostomy tube. The volume of food fed is increased toward calculated resting energy requirement as tolerance permits.
pancreatitis in cats is usually less than 67%, depending on the severity and operator's experience. Features of chronic pancreatitis are even less defined and include hyperechoic or heteroechoic pancreas, a dilated common bile duct, pancreatic enlargement, and irregular margins (Pic. 3).
There are no proven disease-specific treatments in humans that change the natural progression of acute pancreatitis, although the research is ongoing. A new leukocyte function-associated antigen 1 antagonist was recently approved in Japan in dogs.
