Acute Pancreatitis as an Outcome of Familial Shar Pei Fever. a Case Report

A female dog of the Shar Pei breed, aged 28 months, was euthanised due to familial shar pei fever with amyloidosis. Microscopic and ultrastructural analyses demonstrated the dog to be affected by acute pancreatitis as an outcome of renal amyloidosis and morphological lesions occurring in the liver. The presented case report depicts the microscopic and ultrastructural pattern of the dog pancreas under the condition of acute inflammation and is a contribution to the knowledge on lesions in the kidneys and liver that induces disorders in the pancreas as well as on concomitant changes occurring in the spleen.