Ultrasonography changes in acute and chronic pancreatic inflammation in cats

Abstract

Diagnosis of inflammatory pancreatic disease in the absence of specific tests: fPLI (specific pancreatic lipase in cats) and TLI (trypsin-like immunoreactivity), which today are the gold standard for the diagnosis of pancreatitis in cats, but are not available yet in our country for clinicians, is quite complex in the absence of a specific clinical picture, due to the peculiarity of the course of this disease in this species of animals. Ultrasound scanners with high-sensitivity sensors are relatively accessible today in the daily practice of a veterinarian and this visual method of diagnosis makes it possible to assess the presence or absence of structural changes in the pancreas of cats with a non-specific clinical picture of the disease. The article analyzes the possibilities of the ultrasonic diagnostic method in the study of this organ in this species of animals clinically healthy and patients and correlation of the revealed changes with the clinical symptoms of the disease are carried out.