1999 Volume 52 Issue 7 Pages 433-436
A2-year-2-month-old female Borzoi dog with fever, cough, pendulous abdomen, and weight loss, was revealed to have systolic and diastolic murmurs and radiographic cardiomegaly. Electrocardiography showed ventricular premature contractions and atrial fibrillation, and echocardiography indicated thickening of the mitral and tricuspid valves, marked enlargement of the left atrium and ventricle, enlargement of the right atrium and ventricle, and smoke-like echo. Color flow Doppler ultrasonography showed severe mitral and tricuspid regurgitation. The case was diagnosed as severe congestive heart failure with atrioventricular valvular insufficiency, treated with the diuretics, cardiac glycosides, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, β1-blocker, coronary vasodilator. and antibiotics, and survived for 310 days after the first examination.
