International Veterinary Ultrasound Society

Case of the Month - March 2009

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Signalment:
9 year old female spayed Pug

On the thoracic radiographs, she has a severely enlarged globoid heart

Image:
The patient is in dorsal decumbency and the probe is put on the intercostal space near by the heart.

Questions:

What are your ultrasonographic findings?
What is your ultrasonographic diagnosis?
Additional imaging options?

Ultrasonographic Diagnosis:

Anechoic fluid around the heart
Pericardial Effusion
Echocardiography

Result of this patient: 1.2 cm mixed echoic mass at right AV groove. Large volume pericardial free fluid. No evidence of right heart failure or tamponade.

Differential diagnosis: right atrial hemangiosarcoma

Reference:
Pericardiocentesis and Principles of Echocardiographic Imaging in the Patient with Cardiac Neoplasia
Josh Gidlewski, DVM, and Jean-Paul Petrie, DVM, Dip ACVIM
Clin Tech Small Anim Pract. 2003 May;18(2):131-4. Review.

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