Clinical, clinicopathologic, and radiographic findings in dogs with aspiration pneumonia: 88 cases (2004–2006)

Abstract

In dogs, aspiration pneumonia was often associated with abnormalities in pulmonary auscultation in the absence of objective changes in physical examination findings. However, neutrophilia, hypoalbuminemia, and hypoxemia were frequently detected, and radiographic evidence of infiltrates in the right middle lung lobe was common.

Bronchial Vegetal Foreign Bodies in the Dog —Localization in 47 Cases

“…The distribution of FBs inside the right lung could appear strange, with the majority located inside caudal ramifications, and it would indeed be logical to expect a higher presence inside the first branches, which are the ventrolateral (right cranial lobar bronchus, RRB) and ventral branches (right middle lobar bronchus, RMB); this could be justified by the angle of attachment of such lobar branches, because the right accessory lobar bronchus (RAB) and right caudal lobar bronchus (RCB) appear to be, in some cases, more parallel to the right main bronchus, while the RRB and RMB could be attached more perpendicularly to the right main bronchus. Comparing our results with those of a previous study [9] performed on dogs with aspiration pneumonia, it is interesting to notice that in dogs with aspiration pneumonia, the right lung was most affected compared with the left lung, as happened in our cases, but differently, with regard to the right side, the most affected lobes were the right cranial and middle ones, which in the present study were less affected than the RAB and RCB. Similarly, in a study of Tart et al [13] also performed on dogs affected by aspiration pneumonia, the middle and cranial right lung lobes were more affected than the right caudal lobe.…”

Clinical and radiographic findings in cats with aspiration pneumonia: retrospective evaluation of 28 cases

“…This predominance can be explained anatomically, because the main lobar bronchi leading to each of those three lobes are the most proximal and dependently positioned pathways (Amis & McKiernan ). Additionally, dogs frequently have more than one affected lung lobe, with an average of 1.9 lung lobes involved (Kogan et al ). A similar trend was found in this study of cats, with the right middle lung lobe affected most frequently and with most cats having multiple lung lobes involved.…”

Retrospective Study of Tick-Borne Pathogens and Observation of <i>Ehrlichia ewingii / Anaplasma phagocytophilum</i> and Hemotropic <i>Mycoplasma</i> spp. in Dogs’ Blood Films

“…Left shift is often associated with inflammatory conditions. Bacterial infections, among other infectious diseases are more important for left shift occurrence [72,73]. Glucocorticoids increase lymphocyte sequestration and apoptosis [74][75][76], some secreted cytokines in bacterial and viral infections also cause lymphopenia [77][78][79].…”