Transfusão sanguínea em felinos domésticos : revisão de literatura

Abstract

Blood transfusion or hemotherapy is a formo f transplantation, which allows a donor to provide whole blood or blood components to a sick receiver, whose needs and disfunctions may be supplied or corrected. The main indications for hemotherapy in a feline patient are blood losses from trauma, anemia and coagulopathies. For the success of hemotherapy the donor selection according to its temperamento, health profile, updated immunization and body weight should be strictly followed, as well as, blood compatibility tests and/ or blood typing should be carried out before the blood transfusion, aiming to assure the health integrity of animals involved on hemotherapeutic process treatment. The monitoring of the recipient cat during and after the transfusion procedure is essential, since early intervention on eventual transfusion reactions may optimized the re-establishment of paciente health integrity. Given the importance of transfusion medicine in the clinical and surgical feline practice, it was aimed to review the presente theme.