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Indications for ultrasound in small animal medicine

Indications for an echocardiogram

Indications for an abdominal ultrasound

Indications in PDF format

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Indications for an echocardiogram:

• Heart murmur
• Gallop rhythm
• Tachycardia
• Muffled heart sounds
• Arrhythmia
• Dyspnea
• Cough
• Cyanosis
• Syncope
• Weakness
• Ascites
• Heartworm disease
• Cardiomegaly
• Pulmonary edema
• Pleural effusion
• Intrathoracic mass
• Splenic hemangiosarcoma
• Thromboembolism

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Indications for an abdominal ultrasound:

• Abdominal distension
• Abdominal pain
• Anorexia
• Vomiting
• Diarrhea
• PUPD
• Pregnancy
• Weight loss
• Collapse
• Ventricular arrhythmia
• Ascites
• Anemia
• Leukocytosis
• Thrombocytopenia
• Elevated liver enzymes
• Hyperbilirubinemia
• Hypoalbuminemia
• Hypoglycemia
• Azotemia
• Hypercalcemia
• Abnormal low dose dexamethasone suppression test
• Abnormal bile acid assay
• Hypertension
• Abnormal fPLI or Spec cPL
• Isosthenuria
• Proteinuria
• Hematuria
• Dysuria
• Pyuria
• Abnormal transitional cells in urine sediment
• Decreased intraabdominal detail
• Mass effect
• Mass
• Organomegaly
• Small liver
• Metastasis check

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