ECG/echo query
10 year old FN Weimeraner with primary lung mass, seen for echo as cardiomegaly suspected on thoracic rads and was cyanotic with poor recovery from sedation Heart seems largely normal. The mitral valve was mildly thickened and the right side of the heart appeared prominent – do you think this is normal? The dog was…
Ruptured gallbladder
2 year old cat presented following RTA – soft tissue swelling ventrum and scuffed nails; suspect RTA or kick Was managed conservatively and rad showed mild pleural effusion Represented 24 hours later jaundiced and inappetant, severe elevation in liver enzymes
Heart screen breeding dog
3 year old FE Great Dane 55kg screening for DCM for breeding Clinically normal, I did not auscultate a murmur A mild mitral valve insufficiency was present but the echo and ECG seemed otherwise normal How would you classify this in a report, should this dog be bred?
Abnormal vessel cat abdomen
9+ year old lean cat with inappetance, T4 60+, Sg 1.030 SDMA normal but kidneys look like CKD on bloods Normal liver enzymes and protein Possible apathetic hyperthyroidism I was concerned with a tortuous vessel by pancreas, is this a shunt? Sorry for all the videos
Cholangitis in a cat
9 year old MN DSH with vomiting after which he has collapsed 3 times, mildly elevated liver enzymes, good BCS Cardiac exam normal Hyperechoic gallbladder wall with what I think is mineralisation within biliary ducts, worse on right side of liver Also thickened submucosal stomach layer, pancreatic changes and lymphadenopathy at ICCJ So I suspect…
Nodular liver in a cat
3 year old cat that was having cardiac scan as had episodes of retch/cough and patchy pulmonary infiltrates on xray Cardiac scan normal, suspect pneumonia, responding to antibiotics Dramatic nodules in liver seen when performing cardiac scan, rest of abdominal scan unremarkable Appetite, weight, form all normal, no V+/D+ Haem low MCV, biochem pending I…
Pancreatic mass?
12 YO ME Labrador, presented weak/collapsed and hypothermic, acute onset, bloods fairly normal Ascites (serous/yellow on aspiration), nodular liver, thickened GB wall, thickened stomach wall with hypertrophied muscularis layer, heterogenous pancreas with area of hypoechogenicity…..I don’t think this is a LN and not sure about a mass lesion, there is some steatitis surrounding it…what do…
Gallbladder mucocoele
11 yo fn Bichon Frise, high liver enzymes on pre GA bloods Severely abnormal gallbladder (mucocoele?) and CBD, liver also enlarged and patchy How would you describe this gallbladder and are there stones in the common bile duct?
Liver Mass
12 year old Collie MN dog with lethargy, intermittent vomiting and elevated liver ezymes Scan showed bilateral adrenomegaly, mineralisations in spleen, heterogenous pancreas, cystic/sludge gallbladder, hyperechoic patchy liver with hyperechoic mass in right side of liver FNAs taken of mass and cytology reports: hepatocyte cytoplasmic rarefaction (moderate), lipofucinosis (mild). What do you think this mass…
Ascites
11 yo fn WHWT with ascites and weight loss, no GI signs but mild hypoalbuminaemia and hypoglobulinaemia Previous moderate to severe elevation of ALP>>ALT and pu/pd, ACTH stim grey zone 1.5 L fluid drained prior to me scanning, reported to be transudate on initial aspiration but sanguinous on drainage