Hello
This is Roxy a 3 year old Boston that has been in the hospital with aggressive treatments for 2-3 days. Being treated for elevated liver and kidney enzymes and high spec lipase. We have Lepto PCR pending. Owners consented to an abdominal US today. The kidneys are hyperechoic relative to the liver and spleen and in the area of the pancreas I found what appears to be fluid within the pancreas or within the mesentery. I was hoping for confirmation that there is fluid within a portion of the pancreas. The pocket of fluid is most obvious on the trans image.Thanks. Brent
Hello
This is Roxy a 3 year old Boston that has been in the hospital with aggressive treatments for 2-3 days. Being treated for elevated liver and kidney enzymes and high spec lipase. We have Lepto PCR pending. Owners consented to an abdominal US today. The kidneys are hyperechoic relative to the liver and spleen and in the area of the pancreas I found what appears to be fluid within the pancreas or within the mesentery. I was hoping for confirmation that there is fluid within a portion of the pancreas. The pocket of fluid is most obvious on the trans image.Thanks. Brent
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Yes there are trace fluid
Yes there are trace fluid pockets and you get these with mesenteric inflammation like this. Too young for carcinomatosis but in older animals it can look like this. If the meds are working then these pockets resorb and the mesentery organizes and becomes less ill-defined.
Thanks. Confirmed Lepto on
Thanks. Confirmed Lepto on PCR. Slowly improving. Many thanks. Brent
Makes sense thx for the
Makes sense thx for the further info
Lepto causing pancreatitis or
Lepto causing pancreatitis or a consequence of the renal/liver disease ?
The liver and renal makes
The liver and renal makes sense for lepto but not sure on pancreatitis and lepto. Something is causing mesenteric inflammatory pattern though. I’ve seen lepto cases with pancreatitis but not sure of the correlation. In NJ we see mostly the hepatic form, occasionally the renal form, and periodcially both based on my travels with the probe. Gryppo and Bratyslava are the most prevalent + we get.
There is vasculitis with
There is vasculitis with Lepto which may result in pancreatic pathology as a consequence
There is vasculitis with
There is vasculitis with Lepto which may result in pancreatic pathology as a consequence