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What are the symptoms of a cat heart attack?

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What are the symptoms of a cat heart attack?

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Primary epilepsy is incredibly rare in cats, so if she is truly having seizures, I would strongly suspect that they are occuring secondary to another process. This really could be almost anything- seizures are not necessarily indicative of something going on in the brain itself- and would need a full physical exam to try to establish a cause. I’m not sure what you’ve been reading on the ‘net, but seizures can often be very well controlled depending on their cause. Not sure where you got the info on steroids from either- they are not used in long term management of seizures, only to manage oedema in very severe prolonged seizure clusters. You are correct in considering her heart as a possible cause, though actual ‘heart attacks’ as such would be unlikely. If her heart is the cause, it is more likely to be an arrhythmia or circulatory compromise. This sort of attack is called syncope. It can be hard sometimes to differentiate between syncope and a seizure based only on the attack. Some c

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