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Up to 17% of cats with HCM experience arterial thromboembolism, but cats with other cardiomyopathies are also at increased risk. Cats with abnormally increased hemostasis, which can occur with hyperthyroidism, tumors, extensive inflammation, blood poisoning (sepsis), injury, or disseminated intravascular coagulation, represent another risk ...
Feline disease refers to infections or illnesses that affect cats. They may cause symptoms, sickness or the death of the animal. Some diseases are symptomatic in one cat but asymptomatic in others. Feline diseases are often opportunistic and tend to be more serious in cats that already have concurrent sicknesses.
Vasodilation plays a major role in immune system function. Wider blood vessels allow more blood containing immune cells and proteins to reach the infection site. Vasodilation occurs as part of the process of inflammation, which is caused by several factors including presence of a pathogen, injury to tissues or blood vessels, and immune ...
Feline spongiform encephalopathy (FSE) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects the brains of felines. This disease is known to affect domestic, captive, and wild species of the family Felidae. [1] Like BSE, this disease can take several years to develop.
Hyperdynamic circulation is abnormally increased circulatory volume. Systemic vasodilation and the associated decrease in peripheral vascular resistance results in decreased pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and decreased blood pressure, presenting usually with a collapsing pulse, but sometimes a bounding pulse.
A disease which can kill cats, both domestic and wild, has been discovered for the first time in the US. A variant of the rustrela virus-- related to the wider-known rubella virus which causes a ...
Instantaneous hypotension due to sudden, massive vasodilation and decrease in blood oxygen saturation; Warm, flushed skin due to vasodilation and inability to constrict blood vessels. Priapism, also due to vasodilation; The patient will be unable to mount a tachycardic response, and often becomes bradycardic
Feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common heart disease in domestic cats; [69] [70] [71] the disease process and genetics are believed to be similar to the disease in humans. [72] In Maine Coon cats, HCM has been confirmed as an autosomal dominant inherited trait. [73] Numerous cat breeds have HCM as a problem in the breed. [74]