Intestinal lymphangiectasia in a Yorkshire terrier dog: clinical outcome, clinicopathological and histopathological findings

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A 7-year-old, 3.16 kg intact male Yorkshire terrier had the history of abdominal distension, diarrhea, andweight loss. On the basis of history takings, physical examination, laboratory tests, radiography, ultrasonography,exploratory laparotomy, and histopathological examination, the dog was diagnosed definitely as intestinallymphangiectasia. In this case, signs and results are consistent with those of other reports, but some clinicopathologicalfindings such as hypocalcemia and hypocholesterolemia are not. This means that the findings were not completelyin accord with the typical ones of intestinal lymphangiectasia in this dog. Prednisolone was prescribed to treat. However,it was not effective sufficiently. Thus, azathioprine was added to the regimen used in the first trial, and it was quiteefficient in inducing remission in intestinal lymphangiectasia. The clinical signs were improved to the combined therapy.
This case report demonstrates that the combined therapy for intestinal lymphangiectasia can be used as an alternativeto only glucocorticoid therapy.

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