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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://www.vetsurgeon.org/utility/feedstylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Cat with plaque on the eye</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/clinical-questions/29536/cat-with-plaque-on-the-eye</link><description> This is a 4 year old female neutered domestic short haired cat. She was presented after the owners had noticed the eye was sore for 2 weeks. The eye had purulent discharge and there was an ulcer present. The owners were keen to try to save the eye, but</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 10</generator><item><title>RE: Cat with plaque on the eye</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/227163?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2020 07:55:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:a22c9aed-dbbd-41ba-8771-d9f24b0612de</guid><dc:creator>Claire  Godfrey</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Thank you,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Checked the eye yesterday and it has definitely reduced in size. Plan with owners is to continue medical management currently, especially while the lesion is reducing. Corneal grafting if any issues in the meantime.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Claire&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Cat with plaque on the eye</title><link>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/227148?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2020 21:01:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:6314d383-24d1-4fa5-87b6-78600441dded</guid><dc:creator>Robert Lowe</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Claire&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sorry for the slight delay with this reply. It looks like a corneal sequestrum and depth is always difficult to tell in real life let alone from a photo so I can&amp;#39;t comment on the immediate risk to the eye. However, the quickest and most permanent route to resolution is a corner-conjunctival transposition graft. This reduces recurrence rates to &amp;lt;10% and maintains central optical clarity. If this is not feasible then medical management may lead to the sequestrum being ejected by those blood vessels and assuming it is not too deep the eye may not rupture during this process. Enucleation only justified if this leads to a perforation and the owners are still not willing for corneal grafting (still &amp;gt;90% success rate at preserving vision if it does rupture).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>