R Adrenal tumour
– 14 year old FS Pug presented for vomiting with a few specks of blood present – history of waxing and waning diarrhea, and positive for giardia in the past (but now negative) – bloodwork unremarkable except for eosionphilia – u/s showed some loops of jejunum with an increased muscularis layer but no disruption in…
Hyperechoic pathology
Lucy is a 12 year old Siamese cross that has a history of chronic intermittent vomiting. Mostly bile but food on occasion. Her lab work run recently was totally normal except for a trace of blood in the urine – which was probably from the cysto. No history of loose stools Ultrasound findings: – Stomach…
Shunt Hunt Help
– 5 month male Maltese cross presented for inguinal neuter/deciduous tooth removal – pre-op bloodwork wnl; premed ace/hydro, induced ket/val, maintained iso – surgery routine but recovery very, very slow – took 4-5 hours for pet to lift head and sit up (not typically seen) – abdominal scan: kidneys and urinary bladder normal (no stones),…
Pancreatic Lesion
I was hoping to get some feedback on this case. Buddy is a 10 year old female Cocker spaniel with a long history. The main lab abnormality is a severe thrombocytopenia (17,000 platelets). The albumin is slightly low at 2.4. I am just now trying to do the 17 step SDEP protocol and just getting…
Polycystic Kidney Disease
Manny is a 6 1/2 year old male neutered Havanese. Sadly he belongs to my son. I was called over to their home one evening and he was shaking with discomfort. This seemed to pass over the next 24 hours. I brought him in to the clinic and worked him up. His blood work and…
Intestinal FB
– 8 month F Golden Retriever 24 hour history of vomiting – grade 1-2 systolic murmur PMI left heart apex which had not been noted before – echocardiogram normal; no insufficiences, Aortic Max Vel 2 m/s, all valves normal, no VSD, LV and LA normal, right heart subjectively normal
Biliary Mucocele
We all know what a classical Biliary mucocele looks like (picture from internet) – but what if the images are not quite as clear.
PLE
– 11 year FS Husky cross presented for routine blood testing prior to starting NSAID therapy – no clinical signs of v/d or weight loss BCS 4/5 – low TP 30 (50-74), low alb 16 (27-44), U/A unremarkable SG 1.019, urine pro:crea 0.09 (N<=0.5) – bloodwork otherwise normal; rDVM checked bloodwork 1 week later and…
Periocular Tumour
– 7 year old male German Shephard with history of periocular eye swelling and exophthalmos – initially thought to have a retrobulbar abscess and treated by rDVM with antibiotics – got slightly better but then worse and not responding to antibiotics; firm swelling now inolving most of the periocular region – rDVM performed FNA –…
The SDEP Progression
Just downloaded the new program The SDEP Abdominal Pregression. Great program. I have 3 questions (maybe more later). 1. When you place the probe in the proper location – the arrows indicate a fanning motion and not necessarily movement of the probe over the abdomen.