Descriptive assessment of cardiac changes in cats with feline infectious peritonitis
Petra Černá, Evan Ross, Lance Visser, Riley Ellis-Reis, McKenna Willis, Jennifer Hawley, Michael R Lappin · 2026
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Description
Černá and colleagues check in twenty twenty-six how often cats with feline infectious peritonitis show heart changes. This viral disease is fatal without treatment, and heart muscle injury in it was only lately recognised. Twenty cats with the disease and no heart history had heart scans and a blood marker of heart damage, plus screening for other infections that inflame the heart.
Over half the cats had a thickened heart wall on one view, and many had fluid around the chest or heart without a heart cause found. The damage marker ran high in most cats at first. In the rechecked group, the marker returned to normal after twelve weeks of antiviral therapy. The authors link the pattern to heart inflammation from the disease.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Petra Černá, Evan Ross, Lance Visser, Riley Ellis-Reis, McKenna Willis, Jennifer Hawley, Michael R Lappin |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |