Feline Ultrasound: The Feline Urinary Tract (DIAG432)

Course overview

It's an often-repeated adage - "cats are not little dogs", and this is especially true with feline medicine and ultrasound. Cats have many unique diseases that require feline-specific knowledge to diagnose and treat. Ultrasound is one of the most useful tools feline clinicians have in their arsenal to diagnose diseases in cats, who often present with very vague and non-specific clinical signs. This is one of four courses in the Feline Ultrasound collection. Each course will consist of a single 2-hour session that will focus on the normal ultrasound appearance of an organ system and then present changes observed that are associated with specific diseases. These courses are independent of each other and can be taken in any combination. This course will cover the use of ultrasound to assess the feline urinary tract, including the normal ultrasound appearance of the feline kidney and bladder, deviations from normal that are not clinically relevant, and the ultrasound appearance of diseases that affect the feline kidney and bladder. In addition, there will be a review of ultrasound-guided cystocentesis.