Pasantía con énfasis en Medicina Interna en el área de Pequeñas Especies, en la Clínica Veterinaria Lasallista Hermano Octavio Martínez López f.s.c

Abstract

Feline infectious peritonitis or FIP is a progressive immune-mediated disease that in most cases affects young cats. Caused by a member of the Coronaviridae family, feline coronavirus (FCoV) is an RNA virus which has acquired the ability to mutate in the gastrointestinal tract of cats infected by acquiring the ability to expand from macrophages and produce a systemic disease. (Nicasio, Paludi y Denzoin, 2014, 2). The infection causes a disease course relatively short and difficult to diagnose because the same is based on the assessment of clinical signs and lesions histopathology. The therapeutic measures to be carried seek to increase the life expectancy of the patient and reduce the symptoms but there is no specific treatment that leads to the recovery of the patient. (Nicasio, et al., 2014, 10). The main source of virus is found in the feces of infected cats, becoming feces in the primary source of transmission to cats, but also the possibility of transmission from contaminated objects. Infected cats can develop two forms of the disease which varies according to the host immune response: wet or dry or non-effusive and effusive. The most characteristic lesion in the wet form and is vasculitis in dry form the pyogranulomatous lesions and symptoms depend on the site being more common kidney, liver, lung, spleen and nervous system. (Nicasio, et al., 2014, 3).