Feline cardiac lymphoma: a case report
2019
Henrique Inhauser Riceti Magalhães | Karen Gonçalves Mendonça | Ygor Henrique de Paula | Fabiano Braz Romão | Jeferson Borges Barcelos | Wanessa Ribeiro Gontijo Dobritz | Vera Lucia Pichioni | Thaisa Reis dos Santos
Cancer is the main cause of death among pet animals. FeLV, the feline leukemia virus, increases the odds of domestic felines’ developing lymphoma or leukemia 62 fold. The cardiac lymphoma is a rare neoplasia and little is known about it in Veterinary Medicine. Therefore, it has been sought to report a case of cardiac lymphoma in a two-year-old, FeLV-positive feline patient, who presented dyspnea, lack of appetite, progressive loss of weight, and apathy. By means of supplementary examination, the presence of a mass attached to the heat would be verified, and lymphoma was diagnosed upon histopathological examination. It is thus concluded that this neoplasia was associated to the feline leukemia virus and that, in spite of the supplementary examinations’ having been utterly important for a correct diagnosis, the lack of an early definition aggravated the clinical picture of the patient and hindered the implementation of specific treatment.
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