For Referring Veterinarians

Meet Titan Titan is a 7-year-old Golden Retriever whose parents are Drs. Jeanne Lane and Michael Lane of MedVet Cincinnati. Change in Behavior Titan’s family noticed his energy and appetite were lacking. He wasn’t hungry in the morning like he usually was and he no longer had the energy to fetch his tennis ball. Titan was brought to MedVet for diagnostic testing. With two veterinary specialists as parents, one of them a…

There are several reasons we take thoracic radiographs. These include a noted heart murmur, screening for metastatic disease, evaluating for clinical problems such as a fever of unknown origin or most commonly, for the evaluation of a patient coughing or having respiratory distress. In this article, we will review lung patterns and distributions of common pulmonary diseases while putting the clinical picture together. Radiographic Lung Patterns in Dogs and Cats  Lung patterns are simply the…

Two Common Pitfalls of Abdominal Radiographs in Dogs and Cats The following are two findings on abdominal radiographs that I see commonly misdiagnosed in dogs and cats. Below are two tips that may help you interpret x-rays in your veterinary patients. Tip #1.  Be Careful Not to Mistake the Pylorus as Soft Tissue Mass  On a right lateral abdominal radiograph, the pylorus of the stomach (being on the right of midline) is dependent and is…