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- Title
EVALUATION OF CARDIAC TROPONIN-I AND VITAMIN D3 IN DOGS WITH LEFT HEART FAILURE AND ITS MANAGEMENT USING PIMOBENDAN.
- Authors
Varshney, J. P.; Huma, Zul I.; Sharma, Neelesh
- Abstract
Heart failure is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in canines. With the improvement in diagnostic technology, diagnosis of heart failure has become a routine in referral clinics. Sixteen dogs diagnosed with congestive left heart failure, employing history, clinical signs, radiography and electrocardiography were studied for level of cardiac troponin-I and vitamin D3; and treatment response to pimobendan. Beside orthopoenia, panting and coughing, oedema in dorso-caudal area of the lungs was predominant feature of congestive left heart failure. Higher level of cardiac troponin-I in these dogs indicated cardiac muscle insult and lower level of vitamin D3 might have been the risk factor in the development of congestive heart failure. Survival time of dogs, undergone therapy using pimobendan, varied from 4 days to 6 months and seemed related to level of cardiac troponin-I. The present study revealed increased level of cardiac troponin-I and decreased level of vitamin D3 in dogs with congestive left heart failure. Pimobendan alongwith enalapril, furosemide, diazepam and vitamin D could sustain the comfortable life up to 6 month in 13 dogs.
- Subjects
CHOLECALCIFEROL; HEART failure; CONGESTIVE heart failure; VITAMIN D; BEAGLE (Dog breed); SYMPTOMS; DOGS
- Publication
Veterinary Practitioner, 2019, Vol 20, Issue 1, p74
- ISSN
0972-4036
- Publication type
Article