Síndromes paraneoplásicas em cães: revisão de literatura

Abstract

The rise in the life expectancy of company animals was a direct consequence of improvement of the veterinary care, associated with the concern of owners with their quality of life. However, the bigger survival predispose to degenerative problems, cancer included. Secondary to cancer can be found the paraneoplastic syndromes. The paraneoplastic syndromes included metabolic and/or clinic alterations that accompanying the neoplastic process, which represents a series of combined effects, promoted in distant organs from tumoral origin, primary or metastatic. It may be presents with variable malignancy, and its incidence and diagnosis are poorly studied in veterinary medicine. The mainly paraneoplastic syndromes described in dogs included cachexia, fever, and hematological changes; neurological, endocrine and tegumentary alterations are also described, in lesser frequency. The mechanism of occurrence of most of these syndromes is not established or it is not well understood. The knowledge of cancer associated problems is essential for better capacitation of the clinicians who work in veterinary oncology, providing better treatments options and better final results.