What are the facts about cats and Horner's syndrome?

Answer by  hellopiper (324)

Horner's syndrome is most often caused by traumatic injury to the cat. Symptoms are a drooping eye, redness in the eye, or warmth on one side of the head. Rarely, it can be a sign of an underlying condition, but will resolve itself without treatment in most cases.

Answer by  bubbyboy (9929)

Horner's Syndrome affects one side of the cat's face and is usually caused by some type of injury. Certain muscles in the face are affected because of nerve injury which can occur at the brain level, upper spinal cord or between the spinal cord and face. The affected side is the injured side. One noticeable sign is a small pupil.

Answer by  michelle60 (40)

Typically it will only affect one eye, commonly caused by injury to the head neck or chest, bite wounds, and ear infections. Will sometimes go away after the injured nerves have time to heal. The condition can also be the result of a tumor on the spine, when tumors are invoved the syndrome can be more severe.

Answer by  guilmo (118)

syndrome of Claude Bernard-Horner is the manifestation of ocular injury nerveuse.Les clinical signs are miosis, prolapse of the nictitating membrane, a ptosis of the upper eyelid and redness. They are not always concurrent, but they are ipsilateral to the lesion and usually unilateral. Must necessarily perform a search etiology