This video is primarily for veterinary surgeons, vet students and vet nurses.
Patrick, a young domestic shorthair cat, suffered chronic diarrhoea and faecal incontinence for eight months from the day of his adoption from a shelter in Ireland. Feli…
This video is primarily for veterinary surgeons, vet students and vet nurses.
Patrick, a young domestic shorthair cat, suffered chronic diarrhoea and faecal incontinence for eight months from the day of his adoption from a shelter in Ireland. Feline diarrhoea can be caused by a number of parasites, bacteria, protozoa and viruses, but all were ruled out except for feline coronavirus, which was positive.
This video tracks Patrick’s faecal score from 7 (watery dysentery) to a normal faecal score of 2 using a veterinary faecal score chart (not the Bristol faecal chart for humans). The cat was cured after a seven day course of GS-441524 pills and he is still well five months later.
Chronic enteropathy, also called inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), is a condition with many possible causes in all species, including the cat. Feline coronavirus (FCoV) is such a ubiquitous virus that its presence is often overlooked when a diarrhoea panel reports a positive result: the aim of this video is to get veterinarians to take FCoV seriously as a cause of chronic enteritis because it can be treated fairly easily.
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LINKS:
For further information on feline CoV and FIP treatment, please visit www.catvirus.com.
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@Catvirus
YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/user/DrDianeDAddie
Twitter: Dr Diane D Addie @FIPvet
Bastyon: https://pocketnet.app/catvirus?msocialshare=true&ref=PXAY6Ttdx4uZrpyGuyDRktDzm47YZz8jTg
Video editing was on LightWorks (which I am not good at using) and I thank Audacity for their open source sound editing software.
KEY REFERENCES:
Addie DD, Bellini F, Covell-Ritchie J, Crowe B, Curran S, Fosbery M, Hills S, Johnson E, Johnson C, Lloyd S, Jarrett O. Stopping Feline Coronavirus Shedding Prevented Feline Infectious Peritonitis. Viruses. 2023; 15: 818. https://doi.org/10.3390/v15040818
Link: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/15/4/818
WHO IS DR ADDIE?
Diane Addie is an independent veterinary virologist, she was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow Veterinary School and Head of Diagnostic Virology. For over three decades her research has been devoted to feline coronavirus (FCoV), and her website, www.catvirus.com is mainly devoted to FCoV and FIP. She is a member of the European Advisory Board of Cat Disease, but the views expressed in this video are her own.
