Metaphyseal osteopathy-like disease in two sibling kittens

Abstract

This report describes the diagnosis and treatment of a growth plate disturbance resembling canine metaphyseal osteopathy in two, two-month-old, sibling, intact, female Domestic Shorthair cats. Clinical signs and radiographic lesions resolved spontaneously after three months. Follow-up examination at six months of age showed complete recovery and no radiographic abnormalities.

Long‐term follow up of 44 cats undergoing total hip replacement: Cases from a feline hip registry (2010‐2020)

“…5 However, this condition in cats has recently been reported to be associated with pyrexia and other clinical signs typically associated with MO in dogs, suggesting that those first reports in the literature might have been classified incorrectly as MO based on their clinical presentation and findings. 40,41 The authors would therefore argue that these 2 disorders (femoral neck MO and SCFE) are different presentations of the same condition based on the shared demographics, presentation, and progression of disease, so the more currently accepted term, SCFE, was used in this report. Our findings are in agreement with previous reports where physeal separation was the most common indication for THR surgery in cats.…”