It is a fatal disease that may progress very quickly as a cat can go from being healthy to be in severe distress within few minutes ( Brent et al., 2006). The treatment was successful in nine cats (60%), while four cats (26.7) were euthanized and two cats (13.3%) were subjected to hind limb amputation, at the owners’ requests.įeline aortic thromboembolism (FATE) or saddle thrombus is a catastrophic lesion where a blood clot gets embolised and lodged into the aortic trifurcation ( Borgeat et al., 2014). A statistically significant ( p= 0.023) strong negative correlation ( r= -0.6) was reported between time of admission and subsequent early treatment and recovery from clinical signs. Echocardiography was consistent with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in five cats (33.3%). Electrocardiography (ECG) revealed an R-wave< 0.9 mV, prolongation of QRS interval in five cats (33.3%), and conduction disturbance in four cats (26.7%). Radiography revealed no abnormalities in the hind limbs, pelvis, and spines, cardiomegaly in five cats (33.3%), mild pleural effusion and vascular pattern of the lung in six cats (40%), and Valentine’s heart shape in four cats (26.7%). The case history and clinical, orthopedic, and neurologic examinations revealed a sudden onset of hind limb paralysis ( n = 12) or paresis ( n = 3) associated with vocalization and pain, absence of trauma, cold and pale paws of hind limbs ( n = 13, 86.7%) or cyanosed hind paws ( n = 2, 13.3%), absence of femoral pulsation, shallow and rapid open-mouth respiration (61 ± 8 breaths/minutes), hypothermia (37.9☌ ± 0.6☌) and tachycardia (155 ± 12 beats/minutes), with a muffled heart sound in four cats (26.7%).

Cat paw radiograph