Annex Publishers | www.annexpublishers.com Volume 2 | Issue 3 Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease (Flutd) – An Emerging Problem of Recent Era Tariq A *1 , Rafque R 2 , Abbas SY 2 , Khan MN 2 , Huma I 2 , Perveen S 2 and Kamran M 1 1 Internee at Veterinary Research Institute (VRI), Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan 2 Veterinary Research Institute (VRI), Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan * Corresponding author: Tariq A, Internee at Veterinary Research Institute (VRI), Faculty of Veterinary Sciences (FVS), University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF), Punjab, Pakistan, E-mail: dr.arslantariq3418@ live.com Citation: Tariq A, Rafque R, Abbas SY, Khan MN, Huma I, et al. (2014) Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease (Flutd) – An Emerging Problem of Recent Era. J Vet Sci Anim Husb 2(3): 302. doi: 10.15744/2348-9790.1.503 Case Report Open Access Volume 2 | Issue 3 Journal of Veterinary Science & Animal Husbandry ISSN: 2348-9790 Introduction Cats usually sufer through a common urinary tract infection called “Feline Lower urinary tract infection (FLUTD)” which occurs in in both genders equally [1]. Hostutler et al. [2] claimed its frst accurate description in 1925 but still some authors didn’t recognize this as a disease but only a condition [3,4]. FLUTD usually appears in 2-6 year age with 1.5-8% prevalence while very rarely under 1 year or 10 year of age [2,4]. Condition may present with anorexia, fever, stranguria, dysuria, periuria and pollakiuria and microscopic hematuria but in severe cases macroscopic hematuria and anuria may be present due to complete obstruction of urethra [2,3]. Commonly UTI infection has bacterial origin like E. coli, Enterococcus spp and Staphylococcus felis and Corynebacterium urealyticum infection [4,5]. As disease is considered as life threatening so study has impact to highlight important aspects of disease so that early diagnosis and treatment may possible afer understanding the clinical aspects in future. Abstract Feline lower urinary tract disease (FLUTD) is a supposed to a life threatening condition in cats, especially in males (Toms), when obstructive. Early diagnosis and treatment is necessary otherwise it may lead to death. Condition appears with stranguria, pollakiuria, dysuria and sometime in severe conditions hematuria and anuria may be present. Similar fve cases of age ranging from 3-6 years, with common history of commercial feed and indoor placement were examined during the course of 3 month. Firstly clinical evaluation including clinical parameters and physical manipulation was done followed by laboratory tests. Complete blood count (CBC) didn’t give any signifcant change but urinalysis results were quite doubtful with high values of specifc gravity (SP), pH, erythrocyte, bacterial and leukocyte count. Urine culture reveled E. coli infection which is found to be sensitive to diferent antibiotics in culture sensitivity test. Multiple treatments were done for fourteen days including fushing with normal saline, specifc with antibiotics (ciprofoxacin), Non-steroidal anti-infamatory (ketoprofen) and supportive with infusion (Normal saline) which end up with successful recovery within 2 weeks. Fortnightly visits were made for six months to check for recurrence but didn’t fnd any sign yet. Keywords: Toms; Urinalysis; Feline lower urinary tract disease (FLUTD); Ciprofoxacin Main Body Total fve no. of male Persian cats (Toms) named (Tom I-V) visited veterinary teaching hospital at University of Agriculture Faisalabad (UAF) during the course of 3 months from November, 2013 to January 2014, with chief complaint of anorexia, stranguria, lethargic and depressed behavior. Investigation exposed a common history of indoor placement on litter and fed on commercial feed. Age of the Tom I and III were approx. 3 year old while remaining were approx. 5-6 year old. Afer attainment of comprehensive history, clinical parameters like, temperature, pulse, respiration and dehydration were recorded as given below (Table 1). All toms were presenting stranguria, prominent pollakiuria in tom I-IV while tom-V presented with anuria. Macroscopic hematuria was also recorded in tom-III and V. Distended urinary bladder was felt when manipulated physically. Stones were drawn from urethra as stone are known be the FLUTD in cats previously described by [6], which come up as struvite when evaluated from diagnostic lab. Blood sample was collection directly from vein by sterile syringe while urine samples were drawn by cystocentesis by a sterile and evauated by using “Hematology Analyzer” and “dip-stick” respectively. Blood profle didn’t give any signifcant change but only a minute elevation in neutrophils as mention in Table 2, also described by [4,6]. On other end urinalysis explored overall increase pH, specifc gravity (SP), erythrocyte and leukocyte along with bacterial [7] (Table 3). Culture of urine samples on MacKoncky agar was come up with growth of E coli in all cases which then pass through culture sen- sitivity test as previously performed by Srivastava and Syed [1]. Growth show sensitivity three positive (+++) against Levofoxacin, enrofoxacin and Ciprofoxacin while give two positive (++) against Amoxicillin and Kanamycin. Te condition was diagnosed as Feline lower urinary tract disease (FLUTD) with urinary infection on evidence of clinical signs and laboratory results. Received Date: August 21, 2014 Accepted Date: October 22, 2014 Published Date: October 24, 2014