Clinical, echocardiographic, and electrocardiographic abnormalities in Boxers with cardiomyopathy and left ventricular systolic dysfunction: 48 Cases (1985-2003)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 226, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1102-1104

  Baumwart, Ryan D ^a   Meurs, Kathryn M ^a   Atkins, Clarke E ^b   Bonagura, John D ^a   DeFrancesco, Teresa C ^b   Keene, Bruce W ^b   Koplitz, Shianne ^a   Fuentes, Virginia Luis ^a   Miller, Matthew W ^c   Rausch, William ^b   Spier, Alan W ^a,d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIASTOLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOG; ECHOOCULOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPRAVENTRICULAR PREMATURE BEAT; SYSTOLE; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 20144387084     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.2005.226.1102     Document Type: Review

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