CASE-REPORT - PROGRESSIVE PARAPARESIS IN A MAIN COON CAT

A 22 month old female Main Coon Cat was presented with progressive hin d limb paresis to the Surgical Animal Hospital of the Freie University Berlin. Clinical examination und laboratory diagnostic revealed a spi nal cord degeneration of the lumbar segments. Since the neurological d eficits had progressed over a period of 4 months involving a worsening of the general condition the cat had to be euthanised. The post morte m examination showed leucodystrophy of the spinal cord and degeneratio n of the ventral horn cells in the lumbar segments. The pathogenesis w as not stated, but storage diseases were ruled out.