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CLINICAL CONNECTIONS

RVC Clinical Services Newsletter Summer 2023

A WEEK WITH THE NEUROLOGY AND

NEUROSURGERY SERVICE

he Neurology and Neurosurgery underwent surgery to resect her infected given a guarded prognosis for a full recovery.
Service at RVC Small Animal ear canal, along with the infectious material. However, Mortimer is a determined
T Referrals sees a wide variety of cases Following this, Lillibet was prescribed a character, and we have our fingers crossed
each week. Below we take you through the course of antibiotics to continue to battle the that he will show improvement as he
past week in the life of the service, through infection. We are hopeful she will make a embarks on a process of rehabilitation,
a selection of cases: good recovery! including hydrotherapy, supervised by our
Monday: Our week started with a French Tuesday: A sweet West Highland white dedicated physiotherapist and nursing
bulldog called Lillibet (pictured above), who terrier, Mortimer, presented having team.
arrived with some unusual muscle twitches suddenly lost the use of his back legs Wednesday: Today was a big one for
on the left side of her face. An MRI scan whilst in the garden. Following an urgent Jeremy, a 13-year-old male cat undergoing
of Lillibet’s head revealed that the cause MRI scan, he was diagnosed with a transsphenoidal hypophysectomy – surgery
was a nasty infection of her left inner ear, fibrocartilaginous embolism (FCE), a to remove a tumour in his pituitary gland
extending around part of her brain. stroke-like lesion causing damage to the close to his brain. Jeremy’s tumour had been
She was therefore transferred to our spinal cord. producing excessive amounts of growth
Soft Tissue Surgery Service, where she Given the severity of his signs, he was hormone, causing the condition acromegaly

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SENTINEL LYMPH EXTRACORPOREAL RADIOSURGERY FOR INTRANASAL VACCINE
NODE MAPPING THERAPY DECADE EXOTICS PATIENTS DISPERSAL