Enfermedad valvular mitral degenerativa con presencia de colapso traqueal en canino Yorkshire Terrier – reporte de caso.

Abstract

Case report of a 12-year-old Yorkshire Terrier dog, which at the consultation its owner reports respiratory difficulty with a transient evolution of more than 24 hours, the clinical examination shows marked respiratory difficulty and on auscultation rales can be heard, due to the medical emergency, a blood count is taken in which slight dehydration is identified due to hemoconcentration and without any major alteration in the other values, in addition a chest X-ray film as a diagnostic aid to identify the cause of the respiratory difficulty. In it a marked tracheal collapse could be evident and diagnosed, it stabilized and to avoid stress or fatigue in the patient, she was sent with outpatient medication, because the patient is geriatric and had repetitive episodes of dyspnea, an order was sent to perform an echocardiogram, in which a malfunction of the mitral valve can be seen, which presents a poor closure which produces regurgitation of blood towards the atrium, this is one of the most common heart diseases in small canines and its identification is often difficult, because the clinical signs are nonspecific or manifest in medium or advanced stages, in the case of Ramona, she is a patient who had never before presented these episodes of dyspnea, cough or fatigue and after this episode the discovery of said degenerative disease, the treatment in these patients does not provide a definitive solution, but can nevertheless reduce the signs and discomfort that it can generate in the patient.