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- Title
High-resolution electrocardiography in the diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy in Boxer dogs.
- Authors
Pereira, Evandro Zacché; Alves Assumpção, Thais Cristine; Gering, Ana Paula; Gava, Fábio Nelson; Gómez Ortiz, Edna Mireya; Camacho, Aparecido Antonio
- Abstract
To evaluate the reliability of high-resolution electrocardiography in the diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy in Boxers, 20 dogs with no structural cardiac alterations at echocardiographic examination were grouped on the basis of frequency of ventricular arrhythmias, evaluated by 24-hour ambulatory ECG, and undergoing a high-resolution electrocardiography. High frequency QRS duration, duration of terminal QRS complex less than 40μV (LAS40) and root mean square voltage of the terminal 40 milliseconds of the QRS complex (RMS40) were measured. Differences in high-resolution ECG variables were not observed between groups. Therefore, the results of this investigation suggest that high-resolution electrocardiography is not a useful method for the diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy in Boxers without detectable myocardial alterations or systolic dysfunction.
- Subjects
CARDIOMYOPATHIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART disease diagnosis; VENTRICULAR arrhythmia; DOGS
- Publication
Ciência Rural, 2013, Vol 43, Issue 6, p1102
- ISSN
0103-8478
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S0103-84782013000600025