Associations between cardiac pathology and clinical, echocardiographic and electrocardiographic findings in dogs with chronic congestive heart failure

Veterinary Journal

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 68-74

  Falk, Torkel ^a   Jönsson, Lennart ^b   Olsen, Lisbeth H ^a   Tarnow, Inge ^a   Pedersen, Henrik D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c Zealand Pharma AS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Arteriosclerosis; Biomarkers; Canine chronic congestive heart failure; Cardiac pathology; Myxomatous mitral valve degeneration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NONHUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL TIME; ANIMAL; DOG; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MYOCARDIUM;

CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 77953669261     PISSN: 10900233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2010.04.016     Document Type: Article

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