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Ultrasound findings in feline lower urinary tract disease (F.L.U.T.D)
Let's contextualize. Feline lower urinary tract disease known as FLUTD, is the set of clinical symptoms associated with disorders of the bladder and urethral mucosa of the feline patient associated with feline idiopathic cystitis (FIC), urolithiasis, bacterial urinary tract infection (UTI), bladder wall neoplasia and neurological disorders. Abdominal ultrasound is one of the most used diagnostic methods in pathologies related to the urinary tract, which allows us to clearly observe the renal structure, ureters, bladder, and urethra, which would indicate in a non-invasive way if the patient presented some abnormality in your urinary tract.
Knowledge gap. Being a disease caused by different pathologies that are characterized by presenting similar clinical signs, it is necessary to know by means of the most used diagnostic method, which is abdominal ultrasound, the most common hallmarks to detect the main cause and thus an effective treatment for our feline patients.
Purpose from the studio. Identify and characterize the most common echographic hallmarks in FLUTD of patients who entered the ultrasound diagnostic service at the CUV clinic in the city of Ibagué, from May 9th to September 9th, 2022.
Methodology for obtaining ultrasound images of the felines that entered the clinic with symptoms of FLUTD to organize them accordingly to the most common echographic hallmarks, denoting the differences and structural similarities between patients. The images were obtained using the Mindray DP-20 portable equipment, using a linear probe up to 10 Mhz and a microconvex probe up to 8.5 Mhz.
Results and conclusions. The most evident echographic hallmark was the presence of non-mineralized sediment in 10 cases (35.7%); Secondly, there are other anatomical variations, (Non-mineralized sediment with thickening of the bladder wall; Presence of mixed sediment and floccules; Solo mixed sediment; And mixed sediment with thickening of the bladder wall and floccules), each of these with 3 cases (10.7%). The least common hallmarks are: Non-mineralized sediment with an increase in the thickness of the bladder wall and the presence of free content; Non-mineralized sediment with fibrin hila; Urethral dilation; There is the presence of mixed sediment with increase in the thickness of the bladder wall, each with 1 case (3.5%) of the total number of patient veins.
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