This case report highlights a rare symptomatic presentation of a peritoneopericardial diaphragmatic hernia in a cat due to incarcerated hepatic cysts.
Alerts clinicians to rare hepatic cyst incarceration in feline peritoneopericardial diaphragmatic hernia; extends sparse case literature but leaves management questions open.
Peritoneopericardial diaphragmatic hernia is a common incidental finding in cats and is rarely symptomatic. The case report described herein presented with dyspnoea secondary to incarceration of hepatic cysts within the pericardial space of a cat with a peritoneopericardial diaphragmatic hernia.
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