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The case describes a young male, exhibiting chronic lymph nodes from below, without decompensated momentum, ascitic and with diarrhea. Hypoalbuminemia was evidenced in laboratorial ascending and physical-uterine ascites, being more common the hypoalbuminemia syndrome (nephrotic syndrome, chronic liver disease), was investigated for protein-losing enteropathy. During hospitalization, the diagnosis of intestinal lymphangiectasia was confirmed by ileal intestinal biopsy. Disease by proteins of the obstructive axis, causing the loss of proteins via enteral, malnutrition, hypoalbuminemia, edema, ascites. The diagnosis is confirmed by small bowel biopsy and the treatment is based on the low-fat diet and the medium-catching triglyceride supplementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This report describes a case of intestinal lymphangiectasia (IL) in a German Shepherd dog. The animal was submitted to necropsy with clinical history of vomiting and fetid green diarrhea. Macroscopically, it had jaundice, ascites, bilateral hydroureter and jejunum, and ileum mainly, were diffusely reddish with multifocal thick white areas. Microscopically, the lymphatic vessels of the small and large intestine were severely ecstatic with infiltration of mononuclear cells, predominantely macrophages. The lymphatic vessels in the stomach, renal pelvis are ureters were slightly dilated. Intestinal lymphangiectasia can be hereditary, acquired, or idiopathic. The lymphangiectasia in multiple tissues and littermates with similar clinical signs suggest that intestinal lymphangiectasia in this dog is hereditary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]