Volume: 55 Issue: 2
Year: 2024, Page: 455-459, Doi: https://doi.org/10.51966/jvas.2024.55.2.455-459
Received: Oct. 27, 2023 Accepted: Jan. 30, 2024 Published: June 30, 2024
A one-year old male domestic short hair cat was presented to TVCC, Pookode, with severe anaemia. CBC revealed Hb 2.9 g/dL, VPRC 7.2 per cent, RBC 1.49 x10⁶ /µL and platelet count 24 x 103 /µL. Mycoplasmosis and Ctenocephalides felis infestation was confirmed. Compatible blood transfusion with type A blood along with Inj. enrofloxacin @ 10mg/kg o.d. subcutaneously for 3 days followed by tab. doxycycline @ 10 mg/kg o.d. for 14 days, selamectin 6 per cent spot on 0.5 mL., resulted in significant clinical improvement. The cat was presented again with diarrhoea and vomiting with recurrence of anaemia on the 15th day post initial transfusion. Feline panleucopaenia was confirmed. CBC on the 25th day showed Hb 3.7 g/dL, VPRC 10.3 per cent, RBC 2 x10⁶ /µL and platelet count 12 x 103 /µL. A typed and cross matched second blood transfusion from a different donor cat of blood type A was fixed on the 29th day. The recipient cat which was of blood type A showed acute transfusion reaction within two minutes after the onset of second transfusion and died on the table. Necropsy was done and observations recorded.
Keywords: Anaemia, mycoplasmosis, feline panleucopaenia, blood transfusion reaction
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Veni, V., Habeeb, B.P., Pradeep, M., David, P.V., Unny, N.M. and Bipin, K.C. 2024. Transfusion reaction in a domestic short hair cat. J. Vet. Anim. Sci. 55(2):455-459
DOI: https://doi.org/10.51966/jvas.2024.55.2.455-459