Clinical and echocardiographic features of mild mitral valve regurgitation in 108 horses
| Autor: | Christoph W. Lombard, Peter Tschudi, V. Gerber, Alexandra Imhasly |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Regurgitation (circulation) Doppler echocardiography Severity of Illness Index Disease course Muscle hypertrophy Surveys and Questionnaires Internal medicine Severity of illness medicine Animals Horses General Veterinary medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Disease progression Mitral Valve Insufficiency medicine.disease Echocardiography Doppler Surgery Disease Progression Cardiology Horse Diseases Hypertrophy Left Ventricular Animal Science and Zoology Mitral valve regurgitation business Clinical progression Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | The Veterinary Journal. 183:166-171 |
| ISSN: | 1090-0233 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.tvjl.2009.01.020 |
| Popis: | The clinical and echocardiographic characteristics of 108 horses with echocardiographically confirmed mild mitral valve regurgitation (MR) were investigated along with its clinical progression. Follow-up consisted of a re-examination of 28 horses and questionnaires were used to obtain information on a further 43 cases. Thirty-seven horses with mild MR were lost to follow-up. Horses with mild MR were re-examined between 2 and 9 years (3.8+/-1.8 years) following first presentation, with mild MR still present and a small, but statistically significant (P=0.049) increase of left ventricular diameter in end-diastole. These results suggested that mild MR has a good mid-term prognosis in sport and pleasure horses. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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