Evaluation of the efficacy of simethicone in the abdominal ultrasound and pancreas evaluation on dogs

Abstract

Intestinal gas results in low quality imaging in abdominal ultrasound in domestic animals. On dogs, suggested preparation protocols are varied and low studied. The aim of this work was comparing the efficacy between two preparations in improving the complete abdominal ultrasound exam and pancreas preview. 40 dogs were enrolled in this study. They were separated in two groups (NS diet: fasting; WS diet: fasting added to simethicone). The pancreas images were taken from left lateral decubitus. A score of one to three (1: bad, 2: fair and 3: good) measured separately the quality of the complete exam, left and right limbs and pancreatic body. In both treatments, there were results above 50% of good images of the complete exam and right limb of the pancreas. Otherwise, there were results above 90% of bad images of the right limb and pancreatic body. According to the fact of there is no statistically significant difference between the diets, as well submitted animals to the NS diet as the WS diet, all the results obtained from this work (bad or good images) could be acquired from any of both diets. The good abdominal exam preview as well submitted animals to the simethicone as those without the medication refute this medicine requirement to the abdominal ultrasound exam, but not to the evaluation of the left limb and pancreatic body.