Dr. Nadasan GiuliaVetPoint Vest
Arad, Romania
Patient: Mufi
Species: feline
Age: 6 years
Environment: household with 15 other cats
Clinical findings: soft, scaly swelling of all the 4 paws, one of them apears with crusts.Only the footpads were afected. The lesions appear to be painful, no pruritus.
Diagnosis: plasma cell pododermatitis, an imune-mediated dermatosis
Frequency: rare
Cause: it is idiopatic but asociated with FIV infection
Treatment: steroids.
first 4 days prednisolon-acetate 4 mg/kg i.m, next 7 days at home metilprednisolone 2 mg/ kg
