tailieunhanh - Surgical management of secondary cleft palate in a cat

A young tom kitten was presented to the clinic with signs of mild respiratory distress, rhinitis, and part of ingesta coming out through nostrils. Careful examination revealed a narrow cleft in hard palate. Uranoplasty was done by overlapping flap technique under general anaesthesia. With good postoperative care and management, the animal recovered uneventfully. | EXCELLENT PUBLISHERS International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN 2319-7706 Volume 8 Number 08 2019 Journal homepage http Case Study https Surgical Management of Secondary Cleft Palate in a Cat V. Mahesh G. Kamalakar C. Ansar Kamran and . Nagaraja Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology Veterinary College Hebbal KVAFSU Bangalore - 560024 Karnataka India Corresponding author ABSTRACT Keywords Cat Secondary cleft palate Uranoplasty Overlapping flap technique Article Info Accepted 15 July 2019 Available Online 10 August 2019 A young tom kitten was presented to the clinic with signs of mild respiratory distress rhinitis and part of ingesta coming out through nostrils. Careful examination revealed a narrow cleft in hard palate. Uranoplasty was done by overlapping flap technique under general anaesthesia. With good postoperative care and management the animal recovered uneventfully. Introduction Congenital defects in cats are not uncommon. Various defects related to mouth in cats included cleft palate prognathism brachygnathism etc. Pearson 2006 . Cleft palate is important one of these and may or may not involve the soft palate. Primary cleft palate is a cleft involving lips and premaxilla. Secondary cleft involves hard palate and or soft palate Fossum 2007 . Incidence of palatal clefts was found to be more in female purebred cats of Siamese breed Mulvihill et al. 1980 . Genetics may be the main aetiology of this condition. Nutritional hormonal and mechanical factors can also enhance the formation of cleft palate in genetically predisposed foetuses. Intrauterine viruses and toxins that affect the mother during pregnancy may also increase the risk of cleft palate Glennon 2014 . Presence of clefts interfere with suckling causing leakage of ingesta through nostrils rhinitis sneezing aspiration pneumonia weight loss etc. Garcia 2006 . Surgery is the best option for treating these cases .