Objective: To study the prevalence and distribution of congenital heart defects in cats presented at two referral centers in Sweden between 1996 and 2013. Animals: 162 client-owned cats with congenital heart defects. Methods: Case records of cats diagnosed with congenital heart disease were...

Feline congenital heart disease is less commonly encountered in veterinary medicine than acquired feline heart diseases such as cardiomyopathy. Understanding the wide spectrum of congenital cardiovascular disease demands a familiarity with a variety of lesions, occurring both in isolation and in...

Heart disease in cats can lead to congestive heart failure if untreated. This retrospective study on feline heart disease was conducted at University Veterinary Hospital, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UVH-UPM) using data collected for the period of 2013 to 2015. In this study, the prevalence of cats...

Congenital heart disease is an important subset of all cardiovascular disease in dogs and cats that is present at birth and most often detected in young animals but can be diagnosed in adulthood. The range of abnormalities that can occur during development of the heart is vast incorporating simple...

Retrospective evaluation of the cardiopulmonary data is the main point in prevention and treatment of the diseases. In this study, it was aimed to retrospectively evaluate the data of 570 client-owned patients (321 dogs and 249 cats) referred to cardiology unit. The clinical findings,...

Congenital heart defects are defined as malformations of heart structures present at birth. The incidence of congenital heart defects is around 0.5 to 1% in dogs, and 2% in cats, though the actual incidence remains unknown. Also, breed predispositions for certain congenital heart defects are...

Objectives: To describe the clinicopathological findings and outcomes of cases of feline congenital hypothyroidism diagnosed in a single veterinary hospital in Santiago, Chile. Materials and Methods: Medical records were searched for cases of congenital hypothyroidism over an 18-month period....

Two domestic shorthair cats, a 6-month-old castrated male and a 7-month-old intact female, were diagnosed with complex congenital heart disease. Transthoracic echocardiography in both cats revealed a dilated arterial trunk overriding the interventricular septum with a large ventricular septal ...

Heart diseases are the main cause of sudden deaths in cats. Those diseases can be diagnosed using ultrasonography. This study aims to investigate the cases of heart diseases of cats diagnosed by ultrasonography (echocardiography) in Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, IPB...

A five-month-old, intact female Domestic Shorthair cat presented to the Kansas State Veterinary Health Center for evaluation of a murmur and exercise intolerance. Physical exam revealed a grade V/VI right, parasternal, holosystolic murmur. On echocardiogram, there was an abnormality in the...