Splenic tumor

Fat tissue attached to the splenic mass.

I recently got an unexpected finding when I went to remove a foreign body from the stomach of an elderly dog, and would like to have your advice.

Briefly, a 11 y.o. boxer presented to his vet ambulatory, bright, alert and response, but his owner did witness him eating several pieces of a fly curtain.

The dog had been induced vomit by his normal vet, and did manage to vomit some pieces of the fly curtain, but a radiography revealed that there were still a lot of them sat in the stomach five hours later. 

A dog with liver failure

HISTORY

Photo from www.excelcpd.co.uk

A 5 year old neutered female crossbreed presented as an emergency on a weekend. As she was coming referred from her current practice as their out of hours provider, the access to her history was limited to as much as her owner could provide. 

She had had a first seizure early in the morning of which she did not fully recover. On her way to our hospital, she had two more seizures lasting approximately three minutes each. During the two previous days she had been vomiting part of her food, no blood was noticed, and her drinking was increased.

Peritonitis in a young cat/peritonitis en un gato joven

Abdominal ultrasound (scan)

During our OOH emergency service we receive a 1 year old, female cat whose owner reports us that, for several days, she has not been eating, and now she stopped drinking. On our clinical examination we notice that her gums, her eyes, and her skin are yellow (jaundice), her mouth is very dry, her skin seems leather, and her body is emaciated. She weighted half of a normal weight for her size. However, her abdomen was very bloated and painful (read more).

Stones in bladder/piedras en la vejiga

R. Mcilwrath and A. Hawkswell flushing her bladder

On a very busy day, an emergency blockade turns up. A 10 y.o. female shih tzu  fortunately, was able to pass water on her way to our practice. Within 48h her owner had collected two stones she passed in her urine (photo with 20p coin). Several radiographies made it clear there were much and bigger stones still in the bladder. She was sent home with antibiotics and painkiller, booked for surgery early the next morning.

En un ajetreado día, nos llega una emergencia de un bloqueo urinario. Una perra shih tzu de 10 años, por suerte, consiguió orinar mientras venía a la clínica. En 48h la dueña habóa recogido dos piedras que orinó (foto con moneda). Varias radiografías dejaron claro que habían más, y mayores, piedras todavía en la vejiga. Se la envió a casa con antibióticos y antiinflamatorios, citándola a la mañana temprano para cirugía (read more)

Piedras en la vejiga/stones in the bladder

Castrated male cats are prone to have urine problems. Most of them are due to the production of struvite crystals in the bladder, which can develope from an urine infection to the blockage of the urethra and, therefore, the impossibility of urinate. Neither pets nor humans can live without getting rid of the toxins our body makes, through the urine.

Los gatos machos castrados son propensos a tener problemas de orina. La mayoría se deben a la producción de cristales de estruvita en la vejiga, que pueden acabar en una infección urinaria o incluso en

Dog loving his owner's car.

Of course nobody leaves his dog into a car at 3pm of a sunny day of July in South Spain, but accidents happen sometimes. This fox terrier used to get back in the car after his family got out. In the winter he had enjoyed some siestas there. Because everyone saw him getting out non of them missed him and checked the car in two hours.

The dog arrived unconscious, I do not know how hot (it was beyond the thermometer range). His heart was beating so fast I could not (and cared not) count them. His breath was too irregular. With sedation I controlled the speedy heart and bad breath. After one hour of cold bath he was 39,8ºC. Right then he was given some saline solution of Ringer Lactato