Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is the second most common acquired heart disease in dogs, but is now rare in cats following recognition of its association with dietary taurine deficiency. In dogs, idiopathic DCM is a diagnosis of exclusion, and other cardiac and systemic causes of heart chamber...

The study presents a comparison of the results received from dogs with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) that died during the first 30 d of observation and from dogs with DCM that survived the first 30 d after the ECG. No differences were noted in the duration of QT or QTc in healthy dogs and dogs with...

Heart rate turbulence (HRT) is modulated by the baroreceptor reflex and it was suggested that it could be used as a measure of autonomic dysfunction. Impaired HRT is of a significant prognostic value in humans after myocardial infarction, suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy and patients with...

Practical relevance: Myocardial disease (cardiomyopathy, CM) is the most common cardiac disorder observed in cats. The disease usually leads to the development of congestive heart failure, which is the major cause of cardiac mortality. Arterial thromboembolism is another severe outcome often...

Heart murmurs are a relatively common finding in small animal medicine, and are additional sounds to the normal 'lub' and 'dub' heard on auscultation. The most common type of murmur recorded is a systolic murmur, and can be an indicator of disease severity in dogs with mitral valve disease....

Taurine is a sulfur-containing beta-amino acid that has numerous physiological functions in mammas. Interest for the molecule and its functions began in the 1980s, after the discovery of a feline taurine-deficient dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). During the following decade, a similar pathology was...

In recent years, we have observed an increasing number of cases of fainting in dogs. These cases were investigated in the cardiological surgery at the Clinic of Horse, Dog and Cat Diseases at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the Agricultural University in Wroclaw. The aim of the conducted...