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Myocarditis in dogs: What's the clinical presentation, causes and outcome? | VETgirl Veterinary Continuing Education Podcasts
Myocarditis in dogs: What's the clinical presentation, causes and outcome? | VETgirl Veterinary Continuing Education Podcasts
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13 minutes
Released:
Jun 28, 2021
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In this VETgirl online veterinary CE podcast, we discuss the clinical presentation, cardiovascular findings, etiology, and outcome of myocarditis in dogs. Myocarditis, or inflammation of the myocardium, is not well studied in dogs but can occur secondary to infectious and noninfectious etiologies. Lakhdhir et al out of Iowa State University and NCSU wanted to describe the clinical and diagnostic findings in dogs with both presumptive and confirmed myocarditis, as well as to identify etiologies and evaluate treatment, and report outcome in a study entitled "Clinical presentation, cardiovascular findings, etiology, and outcome of myocarditis in dogs: 645 cases with presumptive antemortem diagnosis (26 confirmed postmortem) and 137 cases with postmortem diagnosis only (2004-2017)."
Released:
Jun 28, 2021
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Podcast episode
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