A retrospective study of canine and feline cutaneous vasculitis

  1. Patrick R. Nichols1,
  2. Daniel O. Morris2,*,
  3. Karin M. Beale3

Article first published online: 21 DEC 2001

DOI: 10.1046/j.0959-4493.2001.00268.x

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Veterinary Dermatology

Veterinary Dermatology

Volume 12, Issue 5, pages 255–264, October 2001

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Nichols, P. R., Morris, D. O. and Beale, K. M. (2001), A retrospective study of canine and feline cutaneous vasculitis. Veterinary Dermatology, 12: 255–264. doi: 10.1046/j.0959-4493.2001.00268.x

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  1. 1

    Animal Allergy and Dermatology Center of Central Texas, 4434 Frontier Trail, Austin, Texas 78745, USA

  2. 2

    Department of Clinical Studies, Veterinary Hospital, University of Pennsylvania, 3850 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA

  3. 3

    Gulf Coast Veterinary Dermatology and Allergy, 1111 West Loop South, Suite 120, Houston, Texas 77027, USA

* Daniel O. Morris, Department of Clinical Studies, Veterinary Hospital, University of Pennsylvania, 3850 Spruce St., Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. E-mail:domorris@vet.upenn.edu

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 21 DEC 2001
  2. Article first published online: 21 DEC 2001
  3. (Received 18 December 2000; accepted 25 May 2001)

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Keywords:

  • cat;
  • cutaneous vasculitis;
  • dapsone;
  • dog;
  • pentoxifylline;
  • sulfasalazine

Abstract

Twenty-one cases of cutaneous vasculitis in small animals (dogs and cats) were reviewed, and cases were divided by clinical signs into five groups. An attempt was made to correlate clinical types of vasculitis with histological inflammatory patterns, response to therapeutic drugs and prognosis. Greater than 50% of the cases were idiopathic, whereas five were induced by rabies vaccine, two were associated with hypersensitivity to beef, one was associated with lymphosarcoma and two were associated with the administration of oral drugs (ivermectin and itraconazole). Only the cases of rabies vaccine-induced vasculitis in dogs had a consistent histological inflammatory pattern (mononuclear/nonleukocytoclastic) and were responsive to combination therapy with prednisone and pentoxifylline, or to prednisone alone. Most cases with neutrophilic or neutrophilic/eosinophilic inflammatory patterns histologically did not respond to pentoxifylline, but responded to sulfone/sulfonamide drugs, prednisone, or a combination of the two.

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