SUCCESSFUL CORRECTION OF FLAT-CHESTED KITTEN SYNDROME IN TWO LITTERMATE KITTENS

Case summary Two 18-day-old domestic shorthair kittens presented with dyspnoea, mild cyanosis, heart murmur, lung pattern, abnormal crawling and a marked dorsoventral flattening of the thorax.Deformity Cups and Saucers of the thoracic wall without pectus excavatum was diagnosed.Cardboard corsets tailored to each kitten were applied.This gave immedi

It is Cups and Saucers not rare that newly hatched chicks remain without feed for about 24 to 48 h before they are placed on farms due to a series of logistic operations.Furthermore, the spread in hatching time can also mount up to 30 to 48 h for late v.early hatchers.In other words, the practice is a complex combination of spread of hatch and dela