Third-degree atrioventricular block in a horse secondary to rattlesnake envenomation

Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 486-490

  Lawler, Jacquelin Boggs ^a,b   Frye, M A ^a   Bera, M M ^a   Ehrhart, E J ^a   Bright, J M ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Colorado Equine Veterinary Services ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOTONIC AGENT; DOPAMINE; SNAKE VENOM;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CASE REPORT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATALITY; HEART MUSCLE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; MALE; PATHOLOGY; SNAKE; SNAKEBITE;

ANIMALS; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CROTALID VENOMS; CROTALUS; DOPAMINE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EUTHANASIA, ANIMAL; FATAL OUTCOME; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; SNAKE BITES;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 42449110376     PISSN: 08916640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-1676.2008.0067.x     Document Type: Article

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