Today’s case is an 11 year old Golden Retriever with vomiting and coughing for three weeks.
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 Case originally posted on August 9, 2007
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Today’s case is an 11 year old Golden Retriever with vomiting and coughing for three weeks.
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 Case originally posted on August 9, 2007
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I agree with diagnosis of aspiration pneumonia and megaesophagus. I noted in the R lateral view there appears to be soft tissue opacity silhouetting with the cranial border of the cardiac silhouette. I was wondering if in your opinion this could be related to a possible enlarged thymus and given the megaesophagus myathenia gravis could be considered?
An enlarged thymus is an excellent thing to look for in a case of megaesophagus! There is an association between thymoma and myasthenia gravis. The opacity on the right lateral in this dog looks a bit more radiolucent than the heart itself, so I suspect it is fat. I also don’t see any sign of widened mediastinum on the d/v projection.