Enfermedad renal crónica asociada a síndrome paraneoplásico en canino.

Abstract

Chronic kidney disease CKD is one of the most frequent diseases in dogs and cats, and is considered one of the main causes of mortality in elderly patients, CKD is an irreversible clinical picture with progressive loss of nephrons. functional, causing various symptoms in patients. In general, patients with CKD develop clinical signs such as digestive, neuromuscular, cardiopulmonary disorders. In contrast to the above, the case was reported in the Mascovet clinic in the city of Cúcuta, of an 8-year-old pit bull breed dog patient, who for 2 months has been losing weight, has had sporadic diarrhea during this time, loss of appetite and denoted as disoriented and pain in the right hind limb. Due to these symptoms and their severity, he was hospitalized, different clinical exams were performed, including blood count, blood chemistry, ultrasound, X-ray plate, blood pressure measurement, ultrasound, urinalysis, reaching the definitive diagnosis of chronic renal failure (CKD), with these diagnostic aids it was also determined that the patient presents tumors in the spleen and lungs, for which nephroprotective and symptomatic treatment, treatments to improve the quality of life of the patient, and maintenance of renal function were performed. Paraneoplastic syndromes are all the clinical and laboratory manifestations, product of the structural and functional alterations associated directly or indirectly with a neoplasm. The manifestations of paraneoplastic syndromes are very diverse and can be gastrointestinal, endocrine, hematological, cutaneous, neuromuscular, and renal. It will focus on the manifestations that can be observed in laboratory tests.