A case of chicken fat and currant jelly associated with long-term agony in a kitten

Year 2025, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 39 - 42, 30.06.2025

Emel Kara , Ahmet Uyar

https://doi.org/10.61262/vetjku.1650932

Abstract

In this case report, it was aimed to present pathomorphologically the case of chicken fat and currant jelly with serous atrophy of the epicardial fat tissue in the heart associated with chronic starvation, cachexia and long-term agony in a kitten. The material of this case was an approximately 6-month-old kitten. Systemic necropsy of the kitten was performed. Grossly, the epicardial fat layer around the coronary band in the atrioventricular region of the heart and the mesenterial fat tissues lost their normal color and consistency. Serous atrophy characterized by a soft, shiny, jelly-gelatinous, gray-light brown, transparent appearance was observed. There was a layer called chicken fat that resembled chicken fat characterized by erythrocytes which are jelly-like and called currant jelly at the bottom and blood plasma containing platelets and leukocytes on top, with an elastic consistency and yellowish transparent appearance in the right and left atrium and ventricles of the heart and the truncus aorta. According to the pathomorphological findings, the case of chicken fat and currant jelly with epicardial serous atrophy in the kitten is the first case reported in our country.

Keywords

Chicken fat , currant jelly , agony , kitten

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