Kidney & Congestive Heart Failure in Cats #veterinarian #cats #shorts

Did you know with Dr. Lehre? So one of my team members just asked me she said if a cat goes into kidney failure does it automatically go into congestive heart failure? And so I'm looking at her while I'm saying this. So your question. So the answer is yes and no. When they go into kidney failure the kidneys also control the blood pressure and so if the blood pressure starts to be out of control then that can create problems with the cardiovascular system. The other issue that we have sometimes is if we the way that we treat kidney failure is by giving them subcu fluids so if we give too much subcu fluids and the heart is having a hard time now you can overload the heart and cause them to go into full fledged heart failure. And when you're treating the heart you have to be very careful with treating the kidneys because the medicine sometimes can hurt the kidney. So it's a seesaw of what could potentially be happening. So hopefully this helped. God bless. Thanks for watching.