Advances in Animal Cardiology
Online ISSN : 1883-5260
Print ISSN : 0910-6537
ISSN-L : 0910-6537
M-Mode and Two-Dimensional Echocardiographic Observations on Bovine Cardiac Diseases
Yoshinori YAMAGAKimehiko TOO
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1986 Volume 19 Issue 19 Pages 54-62

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Cows with dilated (congestive) cardiomyopathy (case 1), chronic large abscesses of the pericardium (case 2) and bovine leukemia with cardiac involvement (case 3) were examined, using M-mode and two-dimensional echocardiography. Case 1 was characterized by dilatation of four cardiac chambers with poor ventricular function. Case 2 revealed the existence of large pericardial abscesses accompanied by cardiac atrophy echocardiographically. The echocardiographic features of case 3 were symmetrically thickened ventricular walls due to leukemic infiltration of the myocardium. Besides, an abnormal mitral closure on the M-mode echocardiogram, indicative of an elevated left ventricular end-diastolic pressure was added to cases 1 and 2. Echocardiographic findings corresponded, to a certain degree, to pathological findings.

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