| CAH like many hospitals has a state of the art ultrasound machine. As technology evolves, these diagnostic tools become more prevalent in veterinary medicine. While ultrasound can be a truly useful diagnostic tool, more important than the equipment itself, is the user. What makes our ultrasound machine different is who we have reading your pet's images.
Dr. Connelly has completed a practitioner fellowship at the University of California, Davis, where she studied advanced ultrasound techniques. She also accumulates numerous hours in both abdominal and cardiac ultrasound studies through continuing education courses each year. Ultrasonography consists of high-frequency sound waves that form images of the internal architecture of organs. There is no substitute for experience when interpreting normal and abnormal ultrasonic images.
Ultrasound
examinations are commonly used in conjunction with other
diagnostic procedures for the following purposes:
Monitoring Pregnant Pets
Uterine/ovarian
health in breeding animals
Prostate
examinations
Geriatric
health screening
Neoplasia
monitoring (cancer/metastasis checks)
Pancreatitis
(acute or chronic)
Vomiting
(acute or chronic)
Diarrhea
(acute or chronic)
Urinary
tract disorders (blood in the urine, increased frequency of
urination, or no urination), such as:
Renal
(kidney)
Ureter
(tube from the kidney to bladder)
Bladder
(bladder stones, neoplasia)
Proximal
urethra
Examination
of abdominal organs
Toxicity
(i.e., ethylene glycol)
Liver
disease
Biliary
disease
Abdominal
and peripheral lymph nodes
Thyroid
gland
Exotic
pet examinations (fish, reptiles, pocket pets)
Ferrets
(adrenal glands and all other abdominal organs)
Fine
needle aspirates to obtain cellular samples of organs
without invasive surgery
Heart
function (used to help diagnose/characterize heart
disease/failure) in all species
Ultrasound examinations have many applications and we are
fortunate to have this diagnostic tool at
Community
Animal
Hospital . |
