I am starting to think that examination of the neck might be a useful part of the routine sonographic examination for cats and dogs: especially in complex cases. In addition to those with sepsis, foreign bodies, thyroid disease, lymphadenopathy or salivary gland changes, patients with impaired oesophageal function are sometimes picked up. Some animals with … Continue reading
There’s a nice JSAP paper by Livia Benigni from a few years back which revealed the variability in distribution of pulmonary oedema in the lungs of cats with congestive heart failure. J Small Anim Pract. 2009 Jan;50(1):9-14. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-5827.2008.00655.x. Epub 2008 Aug 13.Radiographic appearance of cardiogenic pulmonary oedema in 23 cats.Benigni L1, Morgan N, … Continue reading
I have blogged about this before: Sonographic features of shoulder osteochondrosis dissecans (OCD) in a dog However, at that stage I hadn’t found this: Vet Radiol Ultrasound. 2015 Jan-Feb;56(1):3-11. doi: 10.1111/vru.12179. Epub 2014 May 21.Diagnostic sensitivity of radiography, ultrasonography, and magnetic resonance imaging for detecting shoulder osteochondrosis/osteochondritis dissecans in dogs.Wall CR1, Cook CR, Cook … Continue reading
This is nothing very radical but when I started echo-ing I struggled for ages to get my brain around how to visualise PDAs. The degree of visibility does depend a bit on the individual dog’s conformation and how closely the main pulmonary artery and aorta are in approximation. This particular dog: a Springer Spaniel gives … Continue reading
I think this may be an under-appreciated phenomenon. Since, this article appeared: Biomed Res Int. 2016;2016:4727054Prevalence and Prognosis of Anemia in Dogs with Degenerative Mitral Valve Disease.Yu IB1, Huang HP1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5093253/ I’ve been more switched on to the fact that a proportion of our ‘routine’ mitral valve disease patients indeed are mildly anaemic and without … Continue reading
In recent years I’ve seen a series of cats with a striking syndrome of acute, severe diarrhoea of unknown cause. The more I see of these; the more I’m suspicious it’s a disease entity which isn’t fully described in the published literature. The three recent cases described below are typical representatives of the phenomenon. All … Continue reading
Just a snippet of information -but something I’ve always struggled to find published confirmation of in the past: that both cats and dogs with portosystemic shunts may have normal range pre- and post-prandial bile acids. I note that in the recent JVIM paper: J Vet Intern Med. 2019 Nov 19. doi: 10.1111/jvim.15649. [Epub ahead … Continue reading
Surprisingly, considering the wealth of information on conventional bacterial pneumonia, there is little published on the features of pulmonary TB in people. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Oct; 15(10): 2235. Potential Diagnostic Properties of Chest Ultrasound in Thoracic Tuberculosis—A Systematic Review Francesco Di Gennaro,1,2,† Luigi Pisani,3,4,† Nicola Veronese,5 Damiano Pizzol,6,* Valeria Lippolis,4 Annalisa … Continue reading
I reckon lung ultrasound must be one of the most profound developments in veterinary medicine during my career. The facility to diagnose rapidly, and with high degree of confidence, pneumonia, pulmonary oedema, contusions, pneumothorax and neoplasia is a phenomenal advance. Having arrived in our tool-kit in the last 10 years, this is still an evolving field. In this … Continue reading
Renal infarcts in cats are common and, in my experience, usually associated with a history of ureteral obstruction. Renal infarcts in dogs are altogether less common. This is the left kidney of a Cocker Spaniel with a history of severe IMHA one year previous: Now, this is a more acute presentation: … Continue reading
