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Creating a clinician. A methodology to evaluate clinical reasoning and case-based decision making.
Assessment of cardiovascular disease in the donkey: clinical, echocardiographic and pathological observations
Tissue Doppler imaging of the mitral annulus for prediction of new onset atrial fibrillation.
Phenotypic description of cardiac findings in a population of Dogue de Bordeaux with an emphasis on atrial fibrillation
The aim of this study was to describe the clinical phenotype of Dogue de Bordeaux (DdB) referred for cardiac investigation, with particular reference to the prevalence of atrial fibrillation and associated features. Review of canine medical records of two United Kingdom veterinary referral hospitals identified 64 DdB with available echocardiographic and electrocardiographic (ECG)/Holter data. Atrial fibrillation was documented in 25 (39%) dogs and supraventricular tachycardia was recorded in five (7.8%) dogs. In a subset of 34 dogs, excluding congenital heart disease (n = 17), presence of a cardiac mass (n = 7) and non-cardiac neoplasia (n = 6), 19 (56%) dogs had atrial fibrillation, with a median heart rate of 200 beats per min (bpm) on presentation. Atrial fibrillation was inconsistently associated with cardiac chamber remodelling, but was frequently associated with systolic dysfunction (13/19, 68.4%) and right sided atrial or ventricular dilatation (14/19, 73.7%) in dogs with atrial fibrillation in this subset. No dogs in this subset had right sided atrial or ventricular dilatation in the absence of supraventricular arrhythmia or systolic dysfunction. The absence of structural heart disease in some dogs with supraventricular arrhythmias suggests that an underlying primary arrhythmic process might be responsible for initiating remodelling, although a primary cardiomyopathy cannot be ruled out
White blood cell differentials in dogs with congestive heart failure (CHF) in comparison to those in dogs without cardiac disease
European Society of Veterinary Cardiology screening guidelines for dilated cardiomyopathy in Doberman Pinschers
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