This is just one of those things that tells you that someone up there has a sense of humour. The day after the aforementioned dog with emphysematous cystitis I was asked to look at a somewhat elderly Border Terrier with a history of well-controlled pituitary-dependent hyperadrencorticism but now presenting with acute abdominal pain and collapse. … Continue reading
This was an interesting image to come across when scanning the abdomen of a vomiting 11 y.o. male Labrador. There is obviously a fluid-filled bladder. In this case, it also contains numerous echogenic particles creating a ‘snowstorm’ effect. However, the normal curved bladder profile is transected by a linear demarcation such that the dorsal part … Continue reading
Loud murmurs with thrills in young animals don’t, on the face of it, sound good. Certainly in aortic stenosis, pulmonic stenosis and PDAs louder murmurs are usually associated with more severe disease. This kitten is about 10 weeks old and has the most dramatic murmur with an obvious thrill palpable over much of the right … Continue reading
A cardiology snippet. This is a recently published article from human medicine: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4505792/ Interesting. Ace inhibitor use decreased left ventricular mass and function without any increase in adverse cardiac events. That’s rather counter to the historical story that ACEi might be contraindicated in … Continue reading
This isn’t rocket science but nice pics all the same. From a young dog with recurrent UTIs whom we screened for ectopic ureters. ….they weren’t ectopic. The jet from the right ureter enters obliquely from below and the left one is firing from above. Although one of the best texts does say that ‘..ureters can’t … Continue reading
This is the challenging case of a 5 y.o. domestic short-haired cat suffering daily seizures. To cut a long story short his cholesterol levels are 10 times the top end of normal for no apparent reason -blood results are otherwise unremarkable. From an ultrasonographic point of view this is his abdominal aorta (as seen from … Continue reading
There’s very little in the published literature about scanning the caecum in small animals -which is surprising since it is often encountered during abdominal examinations. Although dogs often have more gas in their colons and caeca, which sometimes makes it more difficult to make out, the canine caecum is also quite an elongated structure (usually … Continue reading
There are just some practices where every second case is really unusual….. This is a cat whose immediate problem is azotaemia due to a ureteral calculus (function of the other kidney is impaired -likely due to previous episodes of ureteral obstruction) The image on the left is a frontal plane view from the left … Continue reading
I’ve blathered on a lot about pneumonia in this blog. It’s still a bit of a revelation to me that, having gone the best part of twenty years diagnosing pneumonia twice a year I now seem to see them twice a week. This is a very ill elderly dog with a history of ‘bringing up … Continue reading
Newsletter May 2015 Firstly, many thanks to all of you who used our services in the first 4 months of Ultrasound4pets’ existence. We scanned over 300 animals including 70 echocardiography cases. Plus 40 odd dermatology patients. Phew! Congenital defects The number of portosystemic shunts and congenital heart defects out there is phenomenal. We have sent … Continue reading
