Acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure with haemoptysis in a dog exposed to copper sulphate powder

A 2-year-old male mongrel dog was presented because of the onset of dry cough. About sixteen hours before, the dog had been exposed to the pesticide that the owner was spraying in the vineyard. About three hours later an acute respiratory failure, with a rapid evolution, began. Haemoptysis and regenerative normocytic normochromic anaemia arose within hours, and a pulmonary haemorrhage was diagnosed. Pulmonary haemorrhage fast led to pneumonia, as evidenced by the serial CXR findings and the developing of leukocytosis.
Source: Topics in Companion Animal Medicine - Category: Veterinary Research Authors: Source Type: research