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    Chronic rhinitis with facial asymmetry/Nasal mass

    Cat age is uncertain because she belonged to a neighbor who passed away and we then adopted the cat. A vet estimated around age 10 or maybe a little less. All the following symptoms attributed to crypto have pretty much now disappeared: left naso-facial swelling, left eye squinting shut and...
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    Chronic rhinitis with facial asymmetry/Nasal mass

    Yes I've been told that in certain parts of the country even a vet with 25 years experience may have never treated (or even ever seen) a single cat with crypto. We lucked out and got a very experienced vet who had actually diagnosed and treated cryptococcus in numerous cats. She prescribed...
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    Chronic rhinitis with facial asymmetry/Nasal mass

    Cryptococcus infection is also a fairly common cause of nasal polyps as well as granulomas in the nasal passage or sinus of cats--at any age. About 40% of cats with crypto will develop polyps. I am new here and dealing with a 10 month case of crypto with a cat that has all symptoms incl those...
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