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Dog Diseases/diagnosis , Dyspnea/veterinary , Pulmonary Edema/veterinary , Radiography, Thoracic/veterinary , Animals , Dog Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Dogs , Dyspnea/diagnosis , Dyspnea/diagnostic imaging , Heart Rate/physiology , Pulmonary Edema/diagnosis , Pulmonary Edema/diagnostic imaging , Radiography, Thoracic/methodsSubject(s)
Cholecystectomy/veterinary , Dog Diseases/diagnosis , Gallbladder Diseases/veterinary , Mucocele/veterinary , Animals , Blood Cell Count/veterinary , Cholecystectomy/methods , Diagnosis, Differential , Dog Diseases/surgery , Dogs , Gallbladder Diseases/diagnosis , Gallbladder Diseases/surgery , Male , Mucocele/diagnosis , Mucocele/surgery , Radiography, Abdominal/veterinary , Treatment Outcome , Ultrasonography/veterinaryABSTRACT
Pathologic disorders of the equine neonate often develop shortly after foaling as a result of prematurity, dystocia, trauma, or septicemia. Recognition of these disorders requires routine patient assessment along with diagnostic aids, including abdominal and thoracic ultrasonography. Fortunately, modern technology affords today's equine practitioners the opportunity to use ultrasonography to advance their practice, and it is the authors' hope that this article might help in those efforts.
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Abdomen/diagnostic imaging , Horse Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Thorax/diagnostic imaging , Ultrasonography/veterinary , Animals , Animals, Newborn , Horse Diseases/diagnosis , Horses , Reference Values , Ultrasonography/methods , Ultrasonography/standardsABSTRACT
The aim of this retrospective study was to determine the clinical usefulness of thoracic ultrasonography compared to thoracic radiography in evaluation of Rhodococcus equi pneumonia. Criteria for patient inclusion in this study were: (1) isolation of R. equi from transtracheal aspirate, (2) radiographic evaluation of the pulmonary parenchyma, and (3) sonographic evaluation of the pulmonary parenchyma. Seventeen foals met this criteria and their medical records were reviewed. Pyogranulomatous pneumonia was identified radiographically in 13 foals. Severe consolidative pneumonia with no detectable abscessation was identified radiographically in three others. Both consolidation and abscessation were identified radiographically in one. In this foal only consolidation was ultrasonographically identified. Ultrasonographically, pulmonary abscessation was identified in 12 foals and pulmonary consolidation with no detectable abscessation was identified in three others. Sonographic examination allowed detection of only pleural irregularities in one foal, which was subsequently found to have pyogranulomatous pneumonia radiographically. Results indicate that ultrasonography may be an accurate alternative imaging modality for detection of pulmonary pathology attributed to R. equi pneumonia in foals when thoracic radiography is not available.
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Actinomycetales Infections/veterinary , Horse Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Horse Diseases/epidemiology , Pneumonia, Bacterial/veterinary , Actinomycetales Infections/diagnostic imaging , Actinomycetales Infections/epidemiology , Animals , Animals, Newborn , Female , Florida/epidemiology , Horse Diseases/etiology , Horses , Male , Pneumonia, Bacterial/diagnostic imaging , Pneumonia, Bacterial/epidemiology , Predictive Value of Tests , Radiography, Thoracic/veterinary , Records/veterinary , Retrospective Studies , Rhodococcus equi , Ultrasonography/veterinaryABSTRACT
Ultrasonographic features of canine abdominal malignant histiocytosis (MH) of 16 dogs are reported. The most common finding was the presence of hypoechoic nodules in the spleen, some of which caused distortion of the splenic margin. The liver was the second-most commonly affected organ. Hepatic ultrasonographic features were highly variable, including hypoechoic, hyperechoic, or mixed echogenic lesions. Other common ultrasonographic abnormalities included hypoechoic nodules in the kidneys and mesenteric and medial iliac lymphadenopathy. The results of this study suggest that the ultrasonographic appearance of canine abdominal MH is nonspecific, and definitive diagnosis requires cytologic or histologic examination.
