Boxer pup heart murmur
9 week old 4kg Boxer puppy with G 3/6 left basilar systolic murmur Aortic turbulence with Vmax 1.8m/s On scan there was an accessory papillary muscle and an interventricular band which seemed to extend to high septum Question is what to classify this as? What do you call ‘false tendons’ in left ventricle? And is…
ECG
10 year old lab with right sided CHF Is this atrial fibrillation with bundle branch block? Or ventricular tachycardia?
Sphynx heart disease
6 year old MN Sphynx heart screen, history of chronic ongoing upper and lower respiratory disease Heart normal last year I feel there is right sided dilation with tricuspid regurgitation, very difficult with movement/respiration to get velocity of jet How do you classify pulmonary hypertension in cats? Do you think this is cause of cardiac…
PSS
3 month old xbreed puppy with clinical symptoms and bloodwork consistent with a shunt Had small liver, big kidneys and small urinary stones and a portocaval shumt was visualised What type of portocaval shunt is this please? How would you classify it? Thank you!
Kidneys
Same dog as below – 13 year old MN spaniel with cardiac mass/thrombus and splenic thrombus Do you think these kidneys are dysplastic or infarcted? How would you describe the liver parenchyma? Thank you
Heart mass
13 year old MN Spaniel with weight loss Abdo scan showed thrombus in splenic vein There is a right sided heart mass (i think) and pericardial effusion, do you think this is a haemangiosarcoma? There is a large mitral valve lesion also, is this another mass or thrombus? I am confused by multiple lesions and…
Pulmonary hypertension and pericardial effusion
9 year old FN CKCS presented with cough and dyspnoea, mild pyrexia and apparent pain Treated with antibiotics, fenbendazole, pimobendan prior to scan Radiographs showed mild bronchointerstitial pattern and possible tortuous caudal pulmonary vessels Scan showed mild MVD (suspect insignificant), right sided dilation, pulmonary hypertension but also mild pericardial effusion I suspect primary pulmonary disease…
Cat heart murmur
Mature adult ME DSH with murmur The LV wall appeared normal in thickness, there was a mitral regurg and appearance of turbulence in LVOT but AV max was 1.34 m/s, i could not see SAM on m mode either. LA was normal. E/A wave inversion on mitral inflow. How would you classify this murmur/heart disease…
Bradyarrhythmia
10 year old Japanese Spitz with a week history of acute onset cough Irregular bradyarrhythmia on clinical exam, HR 50-60 Echo showed general mild chamber dilation with aortic insufficiency, I suspected this was due to slow HR. ECG showed 2nd degree heart block, is this right? Thoracic rads showed cardiomegaly and bronchointerstitial pattern. My current…
Boxer aortic murmur
2 year old MN Boxer with G 2/6 left basilar murmur Turbulence at/before aortic valve into aorta, could not see subaortic ridge/band, echo otherwise normal The max aortic flow was 2.2 m/s which is classified as normal especially in Boxers How do you classify this murmur please? Clarity much appreciated thank you.