Today’s case is a 12 year old male neutered Domestic Shorthair cat with anorexia and increased respiratory effort for 3 days. What is your radiographic diagnosis?
12 year old DSH cat
Teaching and learning about veterinary diagnostic imaging.
Normal thoracic structures.
Normal plueral space.
Lung pattern
increased soft tissue opacity at the right middle lung lobe on LL view with the lobar sign.
Doughnut rings on the caudal lung lobes.
Aerophagia inducing the inflation of the cervical esophagus and stomach.
Cardiomegaly larger than 2.5 ICS in contact with the diaphragamtc cupola on lateral and larger than the half of the thoracic cavity width on VD view.
Dilated CVC size?
Right middle lung lobe with alveolar pattern and the increased volume displacing the caudal lung lobes but also it may be a pathological change of the cardiomeglay. -> Echocardiography would be needed.
DIffuse bronchial pattern with doughnut rings.
Valentine shape cardiomegaly with the dilated caudal pulmonary arteries and vessels.
Neoplasia, Lung lobe collapse most likely /Granuloma, Abscesses
Chronic bronchitis, Asthma(more likely)/ Eosinophilic brochopneumopathy(less likely)
HCM(most likely)
I totally missed the left cranial lung lobe change on the VD view.
Thanks for the good case to read!
Is the right cupola of the diaphragm displaced cranially a little? Say, from the atelectic middle right lung lobe? (Still a novice on rads.)
Perhaps a bit asymmetric at the diaphragm, which is usually not clinically significant. There is also some rotation on the d/v.
Thanks!