Recently, the employment of ultrasonography in diverse aspects of veterinary practice has attracted significant interest rendering it a crucial diagnostic tool for use in a wide range of animals. Ultrasonography presented a superior capacity to clearly visualize the internal organs with ameliorated abilities to diagnose many affections that are not possible using conventional radiography. Hence, the researchers and the scientists become able to track different organ structure and function either in health or disease state. On the other hand, they could rely on the ultrasonography to qualitatively and quantitively assess the advancement of the healing process post-surgery. In addition, color Doppler ultrasonography has been utilized to assess the function of different organs through evaluation of their vascular hemodynamics. Engagement of novel technologies in ultrasonography presented a novel milestone that extended the uses of ultrasonography to early detection and even prediction of many cardiac diseases. That consequently aids to design and assess prompt therapeutic protocols and minimize the possible deaths.
The key objective of the present research topic is to highlight the current progress of the diagnostic ultrasonography with emphasis on its wide and promising applications in the veterinary practice. This research topic aims to reunite the most significant and recent research conducted on large, small, laboratory, wild, and domestic animals regarding, but not limited to, the following aspects:
- Abdominal and urogenital ultrasonography performed either for diagnosis of illness or post-surgery monitoring.
- Color Doppler ultrasonography for blood vessels and organs hemodynamic functions assessments.
- Conventional cardiothoracic ultrasonography to assess the cardiac functions in different animal species.
- Novel echocardiographic derived diagnostic modalities (Intraventricular pressure gradient (IVPG), two-dimensional speckle tracking Echocardiography (2D-STE), and vector flow mapping (VFM)) to assess and predict cardiac diseases in different animals.
Original research articles either experimental or clinical studies performed on companion animals, laboratory animals, domestic/farm animals, and wild animals, short communications, meta-analyses, mini-reviews, and review articles are encouraged.
Keywords:
Ultrasonography, Veterinary Practice, Diagnostic Imaging, Echocardiography, IVPG, 2DTT, VFM.
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Recently, the employment of ultrasonography in diverse aspects of veterinary practice has attracted significant interest rendering it a crucial diagnostic tool for use in a wide range of animals. Ultrasonography presented a superior capacity to clearly visualize the internal organs with ameliorated abilities to diagnose many affections that are not possible using conventional radiography. Hence, the researchers and the scientists become able to track different organ structure and function either in health or disease state. On the other hand, they could rely on the ultrasonography to qualitatively and quantitively assess the advancement of the healing process post-surgery. In addition, color Doppler ultrasonography has been utilized to assess the function of different organs through evaluation of their vascular hemodynamics. Engagement of novel technologies in ultrasonography presented a novel milestone that extended the uses of ultrasonography to early detection and even prediction of many cardiac diseases. That consequently aids to design and assess prompt therapeutic protocols and minimize the possible deaths.
The key objective of the present research topic is to highlight the current progress of the diagnostic ultrasonography with emphasis on its wide and promising applications in the veterinary practice. This research topic aims to reunite the most significant and recent research conducted on large, small, laboratory, wild, and domestic animals regarding, but not limited to, the following aspects:
- Abdominal and urogenital ultrasonography performed either for diagnosis of illness or post-surgery monitoring.
- Color Doppler ultrasonography for blood vessels and organs hemodynamic functions assessments.
- Conventional cardiothoracic ultrasonography to assess the cardiac functions in different animal species.
- Novel echocardiographic derived diagnostic modalities (Intraventricular pressure gradient (IVPG), two-dimensional speckle tracking Echocardiography (2D-STE), and vector flow mapping (VFM)) to assess and predict cardiac diseases in different animals.
Original research articles either experimental or clinical studies performed on companion animals, laboratory animals, domestic/farm animals, and wild animals, short communications, meta-analyses, mini-reviews, and review articles are encouraged.
Keywords:
Ultrasonography, Veterinary Practice, Diagnostic Imaging, Echocardiography, IVPG, 2DTT, VFM.
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.