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Define heart disease
The presence of any harmful or potentially harmful cardiac finding outside of normal limits
Define heart failure
Heart disease that is severe enough to overwhelm compensatory mechanisms of the cardiovascular disease
What does DAMNIT-V stand for?
Degenerative, developmental Autoimmmune, allergic, anomalous Metabolic Neoplastic, nutritional Inflammatory, infectious, immune-mediated, iatrogenic, idiopathic Toxic, traumatic Vascular
What is an innocent murmur?
Haemic or physiological murmur
Doesn’t indicate that anything is wrong
What is the most common cardiac disease?
Chronic valvular heart disease for small to medium dogs
What form of canine cardiomyopathy is the most common?
Dilated from and usually affects large and giant breeds
What type of chronic valvular disease is the most common in dogs?
Mitral 62%
Mitral and tricuspid 32.5%
What are 3 common synonyms for chronic valvular heart disease?
Mitral/tricuspid endocardiosis
Myxomatous AV valve disease
Progressive myxomatous degeneration of the heart valves
In valvular endocardiosis, what can also rupture?
The chordae tendinae
What are some of the aetiologies of chronic valvular heart disease in dogs?
Dyscollagenosis (genetic degeneration of collagen)
Response to injury lesions
Inherited predisposition (polygenic inheritance)
Uncertain
Describe the pathophysiology of chronic valvular heart disease in dogs?
Nodular valvular lesions grow
Eventually get leakage/ insufficiency/ regurgitation of blood
From the ventricle to the atrium
Start hearing a murmur
Progresses over years
Extra volume of blood regurgitating into the atrium (LS vol. overload)
Heart beats harder
Atrial walls stretch and remodel
Keeps worsening over time
Volume overload leads to ventricular dilation and eccentric hypertrophy
RAAS kicks in
Eventually atrium and veins can’t remodel/ compensate enough
Pulmonary lymphatic drainage increases
Eventually this can’t keep up and oedema develops
Venous pressure rise
Develops into congestive heart failure
Is a dog with a mitral murmur always in heart failure?
No.
However it will progress over many years and eventually it will lead to failure
Can you judge a murmur’s severity by loudness?
No.
In chronic valvular heart disease the heart muscle is damaged and enlarged and makes what other cardiac condition more likely?
Spontaneous depolarisation
- Rhythm disturbances
- Supraventricular more likely than ventricular
What are 2 clinical exam findings that you can find in a dog with right sided congestive heart failure, apart from listening to heart?
Excessive jugular pulse which will rise over 1/3 up the neck - especially if you press on the cranial abdomen
Ascites
(Also the liver enlarges so that may be palpated if lucky)
What will cause chronic passive congestion of the liver?
Mitral and tricuspid valve failure
Right sided heart failure
What type of chronic valvular heart disease is most likely to cause pleural effusion in dogs?
Biventricular failure
Although usually will only see pulmonary oedema
How can mitral regurgitation and development of left heart failure predispose to right heart failure? (especially if there is the beginning of lesions on the tricuspid valve)
Backup of blood in lungs since LS not pumping properly
Get increased pressure in lungs
Harder for the right side to pump against this
What is the consequence of a ruptured chordae tendinae?
Sudden onset of pulmonary oedema
Pale
Collapsed
What is the consequence of an atrial tear of the septum?
Blood goes from the left to right side of the heart
Goes into RSHF suddenly
Ascites
What is the consequence of sudden tachyarrhythmia (usually supraventricular)
Faint
Die
What do clinical features seen in a dog with chronical valvular heart disease depend on?
The stage at which the animal is presented