These rare cases can be frustrating for vets and specialists and sometimes the cause is never found. Even with heart and abdominal ultrasound scans, repeat blood testing, various medication trials & full body CT, it still is a mystery at the moment.

The next step by the vets at PICS is a special CT study, percutaneous CT lymphography using ultrasound-guidance to administer iohexol (contrast liquid) into one or both of his popliteal lymph nodes, at the back of his leg.

This is in an attempt to delineate (outline) his lymph drainage system, from his leg, through his abdomen and chest, with repeated helical CT scans- in the hope that visualising his lymph system (and his thoracic duct), may demonstrate a leakage somewhere.

This is an ongoing case, which has been kept alive by the efforts of his owners & the vets, who have also assisted in the expenses of this case.