This is an 11 year old female spayed Shih Tzu with a 2 month history of intermittent vomiting. The vomitus sometimes looks like coffee grounds. She had a right sided enucleation 2 years ago that was unrelated to her current problem.
Physical examination was unremarkable except for the absent right eye.
A CBC showed mild neutrophilia and serum chemistry profile was normal. A urinalysis was also normal.
Plain film radiographs, abdominal ultrasound, and an upper GI study with barium were performed:
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| Area between the cross marks in the pylorus |
What further diagnostics would you do?
What are your differential diagnoses?
What definitive treatment would you recommend? (hint: it probably involves some kind of surgery.)
Answers in the next blog!
Pylorus looks very distended, craniodorsal area on plain lateral near the stomach is indistinct, incidental 3 small urinary calculi. Is that her foot on the VD? :) DDx - Gastric/pyloric neoplasia, hypertrophic pyloric gastropathy, intussusception, foreign body. Exploratory surgery of course!
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