If you want to buy yourself a kitten or give it to someone, you just need to know what is cryptorchidism in cats, how dangerous it is and how it can be found. The very word cryptorchism means "hidden testicle". In pedigree breeds, as in dogs , cryptorchidism occurs several times more often than in ordinary domestic households. And genetics plays here not the last role. The testicles descend into the scrotum in the first three months of the cat's life. If the palpation after six months they are not found, you need to contact a veterinarian.
Types of cryptorchidism
If the testes are in the abdominal cavity, this is abdominal cryptorchidism. Reduced in size, the testicles of the cat cryptorch are sometimes difficult to detect, since they can hide behind the abdominal organs or behind the intestines. Assign an ultrasound examination. It happens that the testes are found only by the vas deferens.
When inguinal cryptorchidism, the testicles in the form of small tubercles are found in the groin in the subcutaneous adipose tissue. Easily probed with fingers. By inexperience they can be confused with a lymph node or a piece of fat.
There is a false cryptorchidism when the testes from the scrotum return to the abdominal cavity or into the inguinal canal, in the case when the animal experiences stress. Then they go back to the scrotum.
And secondary cryptorchidism, as a complication of false, when for some reason the testicles do not return to the scrotum.
There is a bilateral and one-sided cryptorchidism in cats. The second is more common.
If you do not know anything about this phenomenon, it is difficult to notice the symptoms of cryptorchidism. Cats are sexually active and often the presence of the disease does not affect the binding. Although there is no spermatogenesis with bilateral cryptorchidism. If the spermatic cord is twisted, the cats experience pain.
The consequence of untreated cryptorchidism is the risk of tumor formation, which increases in the seventh or eighth year of the cat's life.
Treatment of cryptorchidism in cats
Hormonal treatment is long and inefficient. Therefore, the operative treatment of cryptorchidism is prescribed. Cats of cryptorchis are castrated. Cats tolerate the operation well and usually feel well on day 7-10. To receive heirs from cats suffering from cryptorchidism is not recommended.