Methods diagnoses in cardiopathies

When and because?
The auscultation of a blowing or cardiac arrhythmias in a dog or cat is indication for an evaluation cardiocirculatoria.
In that case, different studies will be made to determine to him in what stage of the disease is, and from them, the veterinarian will establish which is the best treatment and will be able to establish an accurate prognosis but.

Whereupon studies we counted in veterinary medicine?
1. Complete clinical examination cardiocirculatorio (in all animal geronte or patients with compatible signs with cardiac insufficiency)
2. Electrocardiogram (ECG): One is a registry of the cardiac beats. It allows to see the frequency us and if there is some alteration in the rate. The electrocardiogram will offer the precise diagnosis of the arrhythmia, as well as it will detect the conduction upheavals that can take place in the cardiomiopatías.
3. Ecocardiograma: it allows to observe if the heart has some structural injury, if he is great, if it is expanded or the walls are thickened, defects valvulares, etc?. therefore it is indicated before the presence of cardiac blowing and/or signs of cardiac insufficiency or in those animals that present/display pleural effusion.
4. X-ray of thorax
5. Holter: Little used in veterinary medicine, but by the economic limitation that another thing, in this study during 24 hours the patient (with the help of a harness) takes next to its body a machine that gathers all the beats of the heart (similar to a ECG) and the owner writes down in a notebook each one of the activities that its mascot makes during that day: to sleep, to walk, to eat, to play, etc. With this test we can see S.A. make certain activity alter the beats or appears an arrhythmia that is asintomática and that by another means would not be detected.

All or one single one?
The clinical examination cardiocirculatorio, the obtaining of an electrocardiogram, the accomplishment of a radiological study and a heart ultrasound is indicated. Lamentably, for economic reasons it is difficult to be able to make all the necessary studies. In that case the clinical criterion of the veterinary doctor must suggest what study will offer to the Maxima information diagnoses

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