Document Type : Research article
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1 Animal Biotechnologies Laboratory (LBA), Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Saad Dahleb Blida University 1, Blida, Algeria 2 Biotechnologies Platform for Animal Medicine & Reproduction (BIOMERA), Saad Dahleb Blida University 1, Algeria
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Higher National Veterinary School of Algiers, Algeria
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1 Animal Biotechnologies Laboratory (LBA), Institute of Veterinary Medicine, Saad Dahleb Blida University 1, Blida, Algeria 2 Biotechnologies Platform for Animal Medicine & Reproduction (BIOMERA), Saad Dahleb Blida University 1, Algeria 3 Higher National Veterinary School of Algiers, Algeria
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This work demonstrated the usefulness of ultrasound in exploring the canine brain and its applications in neurology. In particular, we highlighted a reliable, rapid, and inexpensive technique, widely used in human medicine, involving the bregmatic fontanelle. In our experimental study, we evaluated the feasibility of transfontanellar ultrasound (TFU) and its use in species other than dogs, such as humans and cats. The comparison of its practicality in human and animal species (dogs and cats), as well as the particularities of each species, were revealed with the aim of reporting TFU practices in human medicine so they could be extrapolated to animals. Among the selected individuals (one dog, five kittens, three premature infants) free of abnormal neurological signs. TFU made it possible to rule out the presence of ventriculitis in one of the premature infants, as well as to discover, by chance, ventricular dilatation and cysts in another, in relation to a type 1 subependymal haemorrhage in the neonatal period. The third infant and the kittens had normal TFU findings. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic prevented us from performing TFU in the selected dog and from extending our experiments. In conclusion, TFU is proving to be a reproducible, safe imaging technique that is readily available in resource-limited areas such as veterinary medicine.
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