Vet Med - Czech, 2020, 65(10):457-463 | DOI: 10.17221/87/2020-VETMED

Imaging findings of renal telangiectasia in a Maltese dogCase Report

D Noh1, SW Lee2, D Jung3, JK Park2, K Lee ORCID...1
1 Department of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
2 Department of Veterinary Clinical Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
3 Jung Animal Clinic, Daegu, Republic of Korea

A 13-year-old neutered male Maltese dog presented with a three-month history of haematuria. The abdominal ultrasound and computed tomography revealed a large, multifocally-calcified left renal mass that was disrupting most of the renal parenchyma. Most of the areas of this mass did not show any contrast enhancement on the CT. After a nephrectomy, renal telangiectasia was diagnosed on the histopathology. Renal telangiectasia is a hereditary dysplastic blood vessel disease only previously reported in Pembroke Welsh Corgi. This is the first diagnostic imaging report of renal telangiectasia and the first report in a Maltese. Renal telangiectasia should be considered for the differential diagnosis of destructive renal masses with faint or no contrast enhancement on a CT, even in cases of unilateral renal involvement in Maltese dogs or those in non-corgi breeds.

Keywords: canine; computed tomography; non-corgi breed; renal mass

Received: April 11, 2020; Accepted: August 26, 2020; Published: October 31, 2020  Show citation

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Noh D, Lee S, Jung D, Park J, Lee K. Imaging findings of renal telangiectasia in a Maltese dog. Vet Med - Czech. 2020;65(10):457-463. doi: 10.17221/87/2020-VETMED.
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