Recent Content by QuaraLisa

Hello, I come back to give you some (good) news. End of July, we had the good surprise that the level of liquid inside the chest was lower than beginning of July (estimated around 100ml instead of 200ml). As Tigrou was handling quite well this liquid, it was decided not to tap him and to...

We went today to his current vet for his control. Without any surprises, he still has lots of fluid in the chest but vet preferred not to tap as even if the breathing was not very good, he was coping with his condition. He increased the dose of diuretic and added a treatment against heart...

I also saw that combination of pericardiectomy + epicaridial stripping can help with chylothorax but my understanding was that last surgery is very invasive with low rate of success. So I do not think we will go this road. Thank you also for the search. I will take a lot to both searches.

I already did some search on this forum (thanks to google) but I did use Chylothorax, not pericardiectomy. I will try that if some others encountered post-surgery issues. The vet who is currently trying to treat Tigrou is not my regular one as mine does not have neither the knowledge or the...

Thank you very much for your nice words. It is really an awful situation where I do not see a happy ending. I try to continue believing in him but I already had so much hope during this last month that were torn into pieces everytime he relapsed... All I want is for him not to suffer. What is...

Hello everyone, First of all, sorry for my english, but I'm French. I'm trying to gather as many testimonies as I can about my cat's disease and in French forum, I did not get much of answers. Let me try to sum up what is happening to us. Tigrou is an european cat of 13 years old (13 years...