AVALIAÇÃO CLÍNICA E LABORATORIAL EM GATOS DOMÉSTICOS COM DOENÇA DO TRATO URINÁRIO INFERIOR SUBMETIDOS A URETROSTOMIA

The Lower Urinary Tract Disease (LUTD) in domestic cats presents clinical signs of dysuria, polacyuria, haematuria and urinary obstruction. The urethrostomy is a suitable surgical procedure in cases of urethral obstruction when the medical and diet treatments do not impede recurrences. With the objective of analyzing both laboratorial and clinically the animals after the urethrostomy associated to penectomia, three domestic, male, castrated cats were used, with ages from 2 to 4 years, without defined race, evaluated before and after the surgery through clinical exams, urine summaries and haemograms, monthly, for 3 months. Thirty days after the surgery, the animals presented the symptoms of LUTD again, as well as they maintained the alterations of the urinalysis (alkaline pH, proteinuria and crystalluria). The urethrostomy can be useful for removing the urethral obstruction in domestic cats, but do not avoid the appearance of other clinical manifestations of LUTD and