Feline Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency ultrasound findings?

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Feline Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency ultrasound findings?

Ranger Chapel is a 3 year old Maine Coon w/ a 3 month history of weight loss and intermittent diarrhea.  Ultimately, he was diagnosed w/ EPI based on a GI blood panel.  What I could find on VIN said there are not usually specific ultrasound findings unless there is concurrent disease such as chronic pancreatitis, cholangitis or IBD.  What is your experience?  I had originally not been impressed w/ his pancreas, but looking back at the images, could appreciate a hyperechoic mesentery in the region of the left limb and the body.

Ranger Chapel is a 3 year old Maine Coon w/ a 3 month history of weight loss and intermittent diarrhea.  Ultimately, he was diagnosed w/ EPI based on a GI blood panel.  What I could find on VIN said there are not usually specific ultrasound findings unless there is concurrent disease such as chronic pancreatitis, cholangitis or IBD.  What is your experience?  I had originally not been impressed w/ his pancreas, but looking back at the images, could appreciate a hyperechoic mesentery in the region of the left limb and the body.  I am not sure if the small hypoechoic structure dorsal to the stomach is actually the left limb or a lymph node, but if it is parenchyma, would you consider it atrophied? 

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