Publications by authors named "A Agoulon"
Background: Arterial spin labeling (ASL) is a noninvasive brain perfusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that has not been assessed in dogs with meningoencephalitis of unknown origin (MUO).
Hypothesis/objectives: Assess brain perfusion changes characteristics before and after medical treatment, and investigate the role of ASL perfusion in the diagnosis and prognosis of MUO in dogs.
Animals: Thirty-one dogs with presumed MUO.
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- The study examines clinical signs, biological anomalies, treatment, and outcomes in domestic ferrets diagnosed with cholecystitis, along with their ultrasonographic features.
- Results showed that diseased ferrets exhibited nonspecific signs, larger common bile ducts, thicker gallbladder walls, and a high prevalence of Escherichia coli in bile cultures.
- Despite antibiotic treatment, the medium-term survival rate for ferrets with cholecystitis was low, emphasizing the severity of the condition.
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- Tympanokeratomas (cholesteatomas) are harmful growths in the middle ear and are often surgically treated; this study focuses on using non-EP diffusion-weighted MRI for diagnosis in dogs.
- The research involved analyzing 62 dog ears diagnosed with either tympanokeratomas or other types of otitis media, with non-EP DWI achieving a detection accuracy of 77.4% and ADC values ranging between 517 to 2447 mm/s.
- A specific ADC cut-off value of 916 mm/s was found to effectively indicate tympanokeratomas, providing a combined 80.9% accuracy when considering both qualitative DWI images and ADC maps.
Objective: To characterize epidemiological, clinical, radiographic, and echocardiographic features of cardiac diseases in guinea pigs examined at a referral exotics center.
Animals: 80 guinea pigs.
Procedures: Medical records of guinea pigs that had echocardiography performed between June 2010 and January 2021 were reviewed.
Thoracic radiography is commonly used to assess the size of the heart and diagnose cardiac disease in ferrets. Several standardized radiographic heart size indicators have been introduced in this species and values in healthy ferrets have been reported. To date, none of these indicators has been tested in ferrets with cardiac disease.
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