Estudo retrospectivo das doenças oculares em felinos atendidos no hospital veterinário da UFPB no período de 2013 a 2019

Abstract

The number of cats in homes has increased and, therefore, the search for specialized services is also highlighted, as currently occurs in veterinary ophthalmology. The sense of sight is of paramount importance and, as in other organic systems, felines have their particularities in ophthalmology. This consists of a survey of clinical cases related to eye disorders treated at the Veterinary Hospital of the Federal University of Paraíba, in the study period from 2013 to 2019. A period of time 92 cats were treated, 50 cats and 4 males. The largest number of breeds consisted of mixed breed cats (87%) and the rest were limited to six Persian cats (6.5%), five Siamese (5.4%) and one Ango (1. 1%). The ages of the animals ranged from 16 days to 21 years. Eyelid coloboma was the eye disease with the highest number of diagnoses. However, the cornea was the most affected ocular structure, followed by the eyeball and the eyelids. In the cornea, there were 25 diagnoses, including ulcerative and non-ulcerative keratitis, corneal sequestration, perforations and corneal neoformations. Most of the conditions limited to the eyeball already presented as a sequela of phthisis bulbi