Arterial thromboembolism (ATE) has been recognized in cats for almost three quarters
of a century. A case report published in 1930 described the typical clinical and necropsy
findings in a cat presented for posterior paralysis with a distal aortic thromboembolus
[
[1]
]. A series of nine cases of ATE in cats was published 25 years later [
[2]
]. By the 1960s, ATE was well recognized, with a prevalence rate of 1 in 142 new feline
admissions to the Teaching Hospital, University of Pennsylvania [
[3]
]. The prevalence of ATE does not seem to have changed much in the last four decades.
From 1992 to 2001, ATE was diagnosed in 1 in 175 new feline admissions to the University
of Minnesota Veterinary Medical Center (UMVMC) [
[4]
].To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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