Splenorenal shunts in cats: are they incidental?

As part of the new videos created exclusively for this membership platform, here is one describing the sonographic features of splenorenal shunts in cats, an interesting entity that generated a small buzz in our imaging community a couple of years ago.

For more information on the significance of these shunts in cats, you can refer to this article by Palerme et al in JVIM, 2013. You can also read this interesting article by Specchi et al. on the radiographic detection of the these shunts.

[annotated video without sound, 2:29]

The original case: Splenorenal shunts in cats