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Heartworm?

– 2 year old MN rescuesd potcake from Bahamas

– heartworm positive with an intermittent cough but otherwise clinically well

– chest rads normal; echo normal with no evidence of right heart enlargement or LAE

– treatment for heartworm disease is planned

I am wondering if I am seeing an adult heartworm in the right main pulmonary artery? The resolution is not the greatest in this clip, but there looks like a linear hyperechoic object present. What do you think?

– 2 year old MN rescuesd potcake from Bahamas

– heartworm positive with an intermittent cough but otherwise clinically well

– chest rads normal; echo normal with no evidence of right heart enlargement or LAE

– treatment for heartworm disease is planned

Comments

Peter

July 10, 2015 at 7:37 am -

Hi!
I’m not totally sure but

Hi!

I’m not totally sure but I would rather consider this an artifact. The MPA is not enlarged and if this was an adult worm here I would expect the MPA to be enlarged. Do you have any left sided view of the PA (do you see it there as well?)

Best regards!

Peter

July 10, 2015 at 9:04 am -

i think its artifact as well

i think its artifact as well as HW are curvilinear and this echogenic structure is irregular. See the attached same image same view with + hw sent to me from mandi klemen – cardio.

Pankatz

July 10, 2015 at 5:34 pm -

Thanks Peter and EL. I only

Thanks Peter and EL. I only saw this in the right sided views of the PA, and not the left.

Jacquie