An 11-year-old FS Dachshund mix dog was presented for evaluation of hematuria. Abnormalities on urinalysis were proteinuria, hematuria, pyuria, triple phosphate crystalluria, and many epithelial cells.
An 11-year-old FS Dachshund mix dog was presented for evaluation of hematuria. Abnormalities on urinalysis were proteinuria, hematuria, pyuria, triple phosphate crystalluria, and many epithelial cells.
Cystic calculi.
Multiple variably shadowing cystic calculi are noted in the urinary bladder.
The patient was referred for cystotomy with calculi analysis, urine culture and sensitivity. Cystotomy revealed struvite calculi.
Bladder stones can be differentiated from colonic artifact by following the bladder wall over the colon in short or long axis. Bladder stones will obscure the visualization of the bladder wall whereas the colon will not, and the bladder wall will be continuous throughout the image.
No video is available on this patient. The patient was lost to follow up.
Bladder pathology – cystitis, neoplasia, uroliths, trauma. Renal pathology – pyelonephritis, neoplasia, renoliths. Urethral pathology – neoplasia, calculi, urethritis.
Multiple stones were removed during cystotomy. Calculi analysis of the large urinary bladder stones revealed struvite stones.
