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Reply To: Assessing Bladder size with Ultrasound

Sara Jackson
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Hi,

Would volume be a better guide? There have been papers looking at ultrasound volume measurements in humans and Lisciandro has looked at it in veterinary patients. I think it’s in its infancy though.

J Vet Emerg Crit Care (San Antonio). 2017 Nov;27(6):713-717. doi: 10.1111/vec.12670. Epub 2017 Sep 26.
Use of urinary bladder measurements from a point-of-care cysto-colic ultrasonographic view to estimate urinary bladder volume in dogs and cats.
Lisciandro GR1, Fosgate GT2.