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Time spent with cats is never wasted: Lessons learned from feline acromegalic cardiomyopathy, a naturally occurring animal model of the human disease
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Borgeat, K. A., Niessen, S. J. M., Wilkie, L., Harrington, N., Church, D. B., Fuentes, V. L., & Connolly, D. J. (in press). Time spent with cats is never wasted: Lessons learned from feline acromegalic cardiomyopathy, a naturally occurring animal model of the human disease. PLoS ONE, 13(3), e0194342. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194342

Management of incidentally detected heart murmurs in dogs and cats
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Cote, E., Edwards, N. J., Ettinger, S. J., Fuentes, V. L., MacDonald, K. A., Scansen, B. A., Sisson, D. D., & Abbott, J. A. (in press). Management of incidentally detected heart murmurs in dogs and cats. Journal of Veterinary Cardiology, 17(4), 245-261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvc.2015.05.001

A dog or a cat has an incidentally detected heart murmur if the murmur is an unexpected discovery during a veterinary consultation that was not initially focused on the cardiovascular system. This document presents approaches for managing dogs and ca... Read More about Management of incidentally detected heart murmurs in dogs and cats.

Severity of Mitral Valve Degeneration Is Associated with Chromosome 15 Loci in Whippet Dogs
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Stern, J. A., Hsue, W., Song, K.-H., Ontiveros, E. S., Fuentes, V. L., & Stepien, R. L. (in press). Severity of Mitral Valve Degeneration Is Associated with Chromosome 15 Loci in Whippet Dogs. PLoS ONE, 10(10), e0141234. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141234

Mitral valve degeneration (MVD) is the most common form of heart disease in dogs, frequently leading to left-sided congestive heart failure and cardiac mortality. Although breed-specific disease characteristics and overrepresentation point towards a... Read More about Severity of Mitral Valve Degeneration Is Associated with Chromosome 15 Loci in Whippet Dogs.

ACVIM consensus guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of myxomatous mitral valve disease in dogs
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Keene, B. W., Atkins, C. E., Bonagura, J. D., Fox, P. R., Häggström, J., Fuentes, V. L., Oyama, M. A., Rush, J. E., Stepien, R., & Uechi, M. (in press). ACVIM consensus guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of myxomatous mitral valve disease in dogs. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 33(3), 1127-1140. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvim.15488

This report, issued by the ACVIM Specialty of Cardiology consensus panel, revises guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of myxomatous mitral valve disease (MMVD, also known as endocardiosis and degenerative or chronic valvular heart disease) in... Read More about ACVIM consensus guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of myxomatous mitral valve disease in dogs.

ACVIM consensus statement guidelines for the classification, diagnosis, and management of cardiomyopathies in cats
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Fuentes, V. L., Abbott, J., Chetboul, V., Côté, E., Fox, P. R., Häggström, J., Kittleson, M. D., Schober, K., & Stern, J. A. (in press). ACVIM consensus statement guidelines for the classification, diagnosis, and management of cardiomyopathies in cats. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1111/jvim.15745

Cardiomyopathies are a heterogeneous group of myocardial disorders of mostly unknown etiology, and they occur commonly in cats. In some cats, they are well tolerated and are associated with normal life expectancy, but in other cats they can result in... Read More about ACVIM consensus statement guidelines for the classification, diagnosis, and management of cardiomyopathies in cats.

Circulating natriuretic peptides in cats with heart disease
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Connolly, D. J., Magalhaes, R. J. S., Syme, H. M., Boswood, A., Fuentes, V. L., Chu, L., & Metcalf, M. Circulating natriuretic peptides in cats with heart disease. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 22(1), 96-105. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-1676.2007.0024.x

Background: Circulating natriuretic peptide concentrations are increased in cats with myocardial dysfunction. Hypothesis: Serum N-terminal fragment of proatrial natriuretic peptide (NT-proANP) and NT-probrain natriuretic peptide (proBNP) concentratio... Read More about Circulating natriuretic peptides in cats with heart disease.