Prevalence of Congenital Heart Disease in Boxers in Italy

Journal of Veterinary Cardiology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 7-11

  Bussadori, Claudio ^a   Quintavalla, Cecilia ^b   Capelli, Ambra ^c  

^a DVM Practitioner   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c Clinica Veterinaria S Siro   (Italy)

Author keywords

boxer; Congenital heart disease; prevalence; pulmonic stenosis; subaortic stenosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AORTA SUBVALVULAR STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG DISEASE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART MURMUR; ITALY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; RANDOMIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TURBULENT FLOW;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 0002304175     PISSN: 17602734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1760-2734(06)70014-5     Document Type: Article

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