The 'Nasty' Cat Tumour That's Not
From Episode 187 in the Medicine Feed with Dr Sally Coggins
We’re talking FIP again with Dr Sally, specifically about cases of ‘treatment failure’ with the antivirals that turn out the just be misdiagnoses. Here’s one red herring that I’d never heard of:
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Eosinophilic sclerosing fibroplasia is a sneaky mass lesion that can pop up in the intestines of cats.
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They look really aggressive on ultrasound, like a FIP granuloma, or even an adenocarcinoma.
BUT
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Most of the time they’ll go away with preds!
Takeaway: Biopsy those masses! (Or at least FNA)
(Here’s Sally about the case in question: “So that cat probably had four grand's worth of GS treatment unnecessarily, because the diagnosis of FIP was never confirmed.”:)
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