Renal Pathology
Neeko is a 7 year old Blue Healer Cross History of progressive deterioraltion in renal numbers. Recent labs: 6/17 8/17 SDMA :16 27 Creat: 2.1 …
Bladder Mass
Amber is a 15 year old feline that came in to the clinic with classical symptoms of idiopathic cystitis. Dysuria, poilakuria, and stranguria. The bladder felt firm. Urine was submitted. When my associate placed the probe on the bladder she saw the entire bladder was filled with a “mass”. Urinalysis was submitted for a UA…
Tetralogy of Fallot
Hey Jackie, Great case of the month at the IVUSS. Images and cines were top notch. You got a “hole in one” on this one. For those of you that have never seen a Tetralogy of Fallot check this out. If not a member join. Like Sonopath- another great resource. http://www.ivuss.com
Pyloric Mucosal Hypertrophy vs Gastric Polyp
– 11 year old MN Shih Tzu with a chronic history of inteminttent vomiting (bile, foam) and signs consistent with possible GER – pet has been treated with sulcrate, omeprazole, metoclopramide but has never really gotten better. The owners said the patient did better when placed on a trial of baytril and clavamox – abdominal…
Macaw, 24yold, neoplasia. AVIAN
Sarge is my colleague´s macaw. We suspect he is a 24 year old approx male intact macaw. Fed on seed only diet. Presents with loss of apetite, weakness, weight loss (0.9kg only). I would like to share clips of this impressive messy-mass. Heart: WNL in my limited experience. Caelomic effusion. Liver: irregular capsular contour with…
Scanning a Macaw
Hi all, one of my colleagues has a poorly, 20 year old approx, male ( we think) Macaw, “only seeds” diet, and we would like to scan him for more info. I will rescue my notes from my ESAVS course but wondering if I could get any extra info if anyone in the forum is…
Chemodectoma
– 10 year old FS Boston Terrier presented for a pre-op echo due to the presence of a grade 3/6 systolic heart murmur; pet is asymptomatic – echo shows a mass that appears to be coming from the arotic wall but I can’t say for sure it is not coming from the right main pulmonary…
Ultrasound Artifacts
I was recently on You Tube looking for good videos on ultrasound artifacts. I found this video (about 12 minutes long) very educational for me. It was made for the University of Washington school of medicine, but the information is useful in veterinary ultrasound. I often review my notes from certification to remind me on…
EPIC criteria question
I had a good question sent to me by one of my scanning clients today regarding using the EPIC criteria for MMVD: “Hi Jacquie, I’m just trying to apply the findings [of EPIC ]regarding the use of Pimobendan in small dogs with heart murmurs that are asymptomatic for CHF.
TRICUSPID VALVE DYSPLASIA vs Infective Endocarditis
-2 year old, FE feline-(chinchilla). Presented for ruling out pyo post delivery of 4 kittens 10 days prior. Kittens died all at 1 week. Queen presents lethargy. No obvious pyo. – Echocardio: what do you think? More TVD/tricuspid malformation or IE? No other congenital abnormalities found. Thank you for any comments.