Monday, July 24, 2017

3108. A 10-year-old Beagle passes blood in the urine and has seizures.

Jul 23, 2017


X rays show "sand" in the bladder. 
The Beagle has seizures when brought downstairs for exercise recently.  



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. 

Thursday, July 20, 2017

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.



Wednesday, July 19, 2017

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.