3107. A 12-year-old male Miniature Schnauzer has difficulty peeing

Air contrast bladder X-rays show no stones and no inflamed bladder wall.
Dog likely to have urinary tract infection.

Miniature Schnauzers are very prone to urinary stones, but in this case, there was none.
The owner had been feeding Royal Canin Urinary S/O, hence preventing struvite stone formation.
Follow up 7 days later, on the diagnosis of cystitis.
The dog lis back to normal now. 

3106. Be Kind To Pets images

3104. Can the large urethral stones be removed via the bladder?

"Stones are large and inside the os penile urethra," I said to the senior vet. "Can they be flushed back into the bladder and removed via the bladder?"

A few hundred surgeries had been performed by the senior vet.
"Yes," he said confidently. "It can be done."

Urinary cathether + 20 ml syringe =
general anaesthesia
The syringe of water pushed the 2 stones into the bladder. They were removed.

Stones were about 5 mm x 5 mm and rough.
To be sent for analysis.

Shih Tzu is Ok and will go home on Day 3. 

3103 A Maltese has closed pyometra for one year

Dog in distress, panting.  Vaginal discharge over one year.
Stabilised with furesemide and IV drip for 1 day before spay.

One uterine horn
is bursting with pus. Unusual case.
The other one had partial pus swelling.

The dog had heart disease which gave rise to coughing without phlegm. Heart medication was given 24 hours before surgery. Furesemide IV was given. The dog was spayed the next day and survived. She went home on Day 3 and is OK.

Advice:
Do not delay spaying your female dog if she has slight vaginal discharge over the past year. This would be closed pyometra, with the cervix closed. So pus cannot discharge out normally and after one year, as in this case, the dog's right terine horn was about to rupture from overdistension with pus.. 

3102. An 18-month-old male hamster has swollen abdomen - Abdominocentesis

Within 7 days, abdominal distension. Active and was eating till yesterday. Consulted 2 vets. I advised abdominocentesis under gas anaesthesia, which is risky.

Body Weight  64 g
Body weight after aspirating >4 ml pinkish fluid from abdomen  54 g.
Lots of serosanguinous fluid flowed out. Palpated a solid mass or cyst 8mm x 8m
Hamster is much loved. Prognosis poor. May live for few more days unless the mass is not cancerous.

3101. Fashion designs

July 19, 2017


Reference: 50 Women's Fashion Icons that changed the world
Lauren Cochrane,
The Design Museum's mission is to celebrate, entertain and inform.


Helps you to wear something different


1. Debbie Harry (1945 -   )queen of downtown. Face of punk-pop band Blondie.
Her stage wear uses colour and texture to pack a punch.
Collaborate with designer Stephen Sprouse who was responsible for her asymmetric dresses.
Play with colour including the signature hot pink. Red thigh-high boots and matching red tunic. Peroxide hair and black kohl always present. Still performing. A key reference for young women who want to be a girl in a band and look the part.


2. Tina Chow. Jap mother X American father. Died of AIDS in 1992, aged 41. Lagerfield credited her with minimalism. Concentrate on designing jewellery, furniture and sculpture towards the end of her life. Her cult appeal continues. Photo shows her design -  her own bracelets (transparent plastic?),


3. Rei Kawakubo (1942 -  ). Her label, Comme des Garcons established in 1969 now at vanguard of fashion. Annual turnover 164 poungs. Dover Street Market dept stores in Tokyo, London and New York. She believes in creating a brand. Cult of her style continues apace.


 

Printing Images- what file size do you need

From: 
http://www.urban75.org/photos/print.html

Printing images - what file size do you need? A guide to required file sizes for printing out photos [Updated Feb 2016]
Image size Pixels (Virtual Size of Scans)	Megapixel rating	Print size (inches) at 200ppi	Print size (inches) at 300ppi
640  x  480	0.3	3.2 x 2.4	2.1 x 1.6
1,024 x 768	0.8	5.1 x 3.8	3.4 x 2.5
1,280 x  960	1.2	6.4 x 4.8	4.2 x 3.2
1,504 x 1,000	1.5	7.5 x 5.0	5.0 x 3.3
1,632 x 1,224	2.0	3.3 x 6.1	5.4 x 4.1
2,000 x 1,312	2.6	10.0 x 6.6	6.7 x 4.4
2,240 x 1,488	3.3	11.2 x 7.4	7.5 x 5.0
2,275 x 1,520	3.5	11.4 x 7.6	7.6 x 5.1
2,272 x 1,704	3.9	11.4 x 8.5	7.6 x 5.7
2,590 x 1,920	5.0	13.0 x 9.6	8.6 x 6.4
3,008 x 2,000	6.0	15.0 x 10.0	10.0 x 6.7
4,256 x 2,848	12.1	21.3 x 14.2	14.2 x 9.5
4,536 x 3,024	13.7	22.7 x 15.1	15.1 x 10.1
5,782 x 3,946	22.8	28.9 x 19.7	19.3 x 13.2
Professional/online printing Some professional services specify lower resolutions for image sizes, so you could get away with smaller image sizes. Kodak, for example, suggests these resolution/file sizes: For a 4" x 6" print, the image resolution should be 640 x 480 pixels minimum. For a 5" x 7" print, the image resolution should be 1024 x 768 pixels minimum. For an 8" x 10" print, the image resolution should be 1536 x 1024 pixels minimum. For a 16" x 20" print, the image resolution should be 1600 x 1200 pixels minimum. For a 20" x 30" print, the image resolution should be 1600 x 1200 pixels minimum. For a Wallet-size print, the image resolution should be 320 x 240 pixels minimum. Quality vs file size This guide shows you the kind of quality you can expect when you're printing out your photos.

Digital camera resolution vs print quality
Capture Resolution	Video Display	Print Size
		2x3"	4x5"/4x6"	5x7"	8x10"	11x14"	16x20"	20x30"
320x240	OK	Good	OK	Crap	Crap	Crap	Crap	Crap
640x480 0.3Megapixel	Good	Excellent	Good	Crap	Crap	Crap	Crap	Crap
800x600	Excellent	Photo Quality	Very Good	Reasonable	Crap	Crap	Crap	Crap
1024x768	Excellent	Photo Quality	Excellent	Good	OK	Crap	Crap	Crap
1280x960 1 MP	Excellent	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Very Good	Good	Crap	Crap	Crap
1536x1180	Excellent	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Excellent	Very Good	OK	Crap	Crap
1600x1200 2MP	Excellent	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Very Good	OK	OK	Crap
2048x1536 3 Megapixel	Excellent	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Excellent	Good	OK	OK
2240x1680 4 Megapixel	Excellent	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Very Good	Good	OK
2560x1920 5 Megapixel	Excellent	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Excellent	Very Good	Very Good
3032x2008 6 Megapixel	Excellent	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Excellent	Very Good
3072x2304 7 Megapixel	Excellent	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Excellent	Excellent
3264x2448 8 Megapixel	Excellent	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Excellent
10 Megapixel +	Excellent	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality	Photo Quality

Crap	Horribly pixelated blocky mess, like something out of 1987
OK	Looks reasonable enough, but nowhere near photo quality
Good	Pretty good all round, with a fair bit of detail
Very Good	This will be fine for most uses, unless you get up reeeeal close
Excellent	As good as a photo for most purposes
Photo Quality	Woohoo! Fantastic quality print, full of detail and perfect for your picture frame or for your showing off your very best shots.