Recent research has documented delayed onset of sonographic changes in acute canine pancreatitis. This is enormously important in a clinical setting where we now realise that the absence of typical pancreatitis findings on first presentation doesn’t rule it out and we are sometimes going to have to re-scan a dog with ‘acute abdomen’ a few … Continue reading
This is a major issue for sonographers because suspect pancreatitis is a very common reason for scan requests. ….and my experience is that the scan results frequently don’t agree with blood results. The paper below (Kook et al.) is worth a read because it’s written by independent authors with no commercial interest in any particular … Continue reading
Just a few pictures from the last week to illustrate just how common pancreatitis is in both cats and dogs….and how much difference a high-frequency linear probe makes. This is the left pancreatic lobe from a cat with chronic recurrent abdominal pain. The pancreas is ringed by inflamed abdominal fat and the pancreatic parenchyma itself … Continue reading
