The demand for pets to fill affective family spaces, the increased economic capacity of social classes and the displacement of rural populations to cities are influencing factors in increasing pet acquisition. This cohabitation can trigger epidemiological factors that affect human health. For this reason, it is necessary to know the diseases that affect domestic cats that live with humans and determine if there are zoonotic infectious agents that inflict on human health. In the present study, 103 medical records of domestic cats attended in 2019 at the Veterinary Hospital of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Zootechnics were studied. This in order to categorize the most frequent diseases in the species. 71.84% of the cats examined were sick. 55.41% were males, while the age range with the highest frequency was 0-1 years. The most frequent category according to the VITAMIN D System was Inflamatory/infectious.

La dirofilariosis cardiaca es una enfermedad de distribución mundial, causada por el nematodo Dirofilaria immitis y transmitida por mosquitos culícidos, siendo los caninos los hospederos principales. Las pruebas serológicas proporcionan cierta ayuda diagnóstica, pero no son concluyentes. En el presente reporte se describe un caso clínico de un canino en el cual las pruebas serológicas para detección de filarias y las pruebas para detección de microfilaremias no fueron concluyentes. Sin embargo, el uso de protocolos estandarizados empleando el ultrasonido como parte del examen físico, evidenció la presencia de filarias cardiacas. La importancia de reportar este caso es presentar un protocolo clínico que incluye el ultrasonido cardíaco para una aproximación diagnóstica certera.