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| Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease |
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| Hematuria, pollakiuia, dysuria, stranguria, vocalizing while urinating, licking genitalia, inappropriate urination, obstruction |
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| increased frequency of urination |
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| difficult or painful urination |
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| Male cats most likely to block, can't urinate, hiding, painful abdomen, straining to urinate |
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| clinical signs, urinalysis (check for crystals, urine culture, radiographs |
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| Feline cystitis - unobstructed |
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| antibiotics, increase fluids, correct diet |
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| Feline cystitis - obstructed |
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| relieve obstruction (catheter, surgical), perineal urethrostomy (PU), correct diet, may reoccur |
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| usually bacterial, females more common, frequent urination, ascending infection (rarely descending) |
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| Transitional Cell Carcinoma (TCC) |
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| Bladder neoplasia, mc malignant bladder tumor, more common in female dogs, occur in trigone area |
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| Sx excision possible, but not always possible; chemo or radiation |
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| Leptospira interrogans, transmitted through infected urine, enters through MM, multiplies in renal tubules, inflammation in kidney d.t. multiplication of organisms and toxic by-prodicts |
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| Acute and chronic, common in older cats, ~20% of total cardiac output passes through the kidney at any one time - reduced blood flow can result in renal failure; nephron damage (>2/3 before cs), decreased filtration, build up of toxins in the body - azotemia |
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| Usually toxic cause, results in azotemia, polyuric or oliguric |
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| Chronic Renal Failure (CRF) |
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| cause difficult to determine, comes on gradually, persistent azotemia for >2 wks, decreased production of the hormone erythropoietin - anemia, irreversible and progressive decline |
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| GI medications for nausea, vomiting, diarrhea (H2 blocker) |
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| D.T. Estrogen deficiency, urethral incontinence d.t. loss of smooth muscles tone of urethra, usually occurs at night when sleeping |
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| Phenylpropanolamine (PPA) |
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| stimulates smooth muscle contraction of the urethral muscle |
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| Estrogen drug, can be used w/ PPA, can cause bone marrow suppression |
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