Diseases & Conditions
Common veterinary ultrasound uses.
01 – Pancreatitis
Common and sometimes life-threatening disease can often be confirmed and its severity can occasionally be determined by ultrasound.
02 – Cancers
Can often be detected early enough to allow surgical removal before metastasis (the spread to other organs) occurs.
03 – Bladder Stones and/or Kidney Stones
Even some stones that do not show up on radiographs can be found with ultrasound and a thorough assessment for urethral or ureteral obstruction can be performed.
04 – Abdominal Disease
- Enlarged or painful abdomen with suspicious changes in routine lab tests
- Infected gallbladders
- Enlarged adrenal glands
- Kidneys damaged by toxins (such as antifreeze)
- Diffuse liver disease
- Enlarged lymph nodes and reproductive tract abnormalities, such as an infected uterus or inflamed prostate gland
- Measurement of walls of the heart, the individual heart valves evaluation, systemic pressures assessment, and pulmonary pressures and contractility
- When fluid accumulated around the abdominal organs, it diminishes the capability of radiographs. Ultrasound is excellent in determining whether the cause of that condition is a poorly functioning heart or disease in the abdominal organs
