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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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