Cure8 research brief
The case highlights a fibrostenotic, Crohn’s-like disease course with strictures and transmural inflammation in a cat, mirroring features of human Crohn’s disease; this may interest clinicians and researchers studying stricture formation and disease monitoring in IBD.
Veterinary gastroenterologists, comparative IBD researchers, clinicians focused on stricture/fibrosis in Crohn’s disease
This is a single-case report of a 7-year-old cat with long-standing mixed small- and large-bowel diarrhoea, weight loss and focal ileal/colonic mural thickening.
Colonoscopy found a severe colonic stenosis that required subtotal colectomy with ileocolic anastomosis; histology showed transmural mixed lymphoplasmacytic–neutrophilic inflammation with fibroplastic remodelling.
The cat improved after surgery and medical/nutritional support but developed recurrent colonic stenosis treated with endoscopic balloon dilation, later received immunosuppressive therapy, and ultimately deteriorated.
The authors note repeated negative FISH testing for adherent/invasive bacteria, suggesting fibrosis and inflammation were not primarily bacterial-driven in this case. They propose that proactive monitoring may detect progression earlier and prompt timelier anti-inflammatory treatment to limit stricture formation.
Single-case report level evidence from a veterinary journal; descriptive parallels to human Crohn’s disease are hypothesis-generating but not proof of shared mechanisms or treatment responses.
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