Exercise-induced hyperthermia syndrome (canine stress syndrome) in four related male English springer spaniels.

Objective: This retrospective study describes the signalment, clinical presentation, diagnostic findings, and mode of inheritance in four young male English springer spaniel dogs with presumptive canine stress syndrome.

Materials And Methods: Appropriate cases were located through medical searches of medical records of two large private referral centers. Inclusion criteria comprised of English springer spaniel dogs with tachypnea and hyperthermia that subsequently developed weakness or collapse, with or without signs of hemorrhage, soon after a period of mild-to-moderate exercise.

Metastatic pulmonary carcinomas in cats ('feline lung-digit syndrome'): further variations on a theme.

Case Series Summary: The aim of this retrospective case series was to describe seven cases where cats with primary lung tumours were presented because of metastases to extra-pulmonary sites ('feline lung-digit syndrome'). Specifically, we wanted to emphasise less typical case descriptions where tumour emboli resulted in lesions developing in the musculature (including the muscles of the head), skin or distal aorta.

Relevance And Novel Information: The cases are presented to increase clinical awareness of this entity in feline practice, especially when characteristic combinations of clinical signs are present.