Small animal cardiovascular medicine /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kittleson, Mark D.
Other Authors: Kienle, Richard D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: St. Louis, MO : Mosby, [1998]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Cardiac embryology and anatomy
  • Normal clinical cardiovascular physiology
  • Signalment, history, and physical examination
  • Radiography of the cardiovascular system
  • Electrocardiography : basic concepts, diagnosis of chamber enlargement, and intraventricular conduction disturbances
  • Echocardiography
  • Cardiac catheterization
  • Classification of heart disease by echocardiographic determination of functional status.
  • Pathophysiology of heart failure
  • Management of heart failure
  • The Approach to the patient with cardiac disease
  • Patent ductus arteriosus
  • Septal defects
  • Tetrology of fallot
  • Congenital pulmonic stenosis
  • Aortic stenosis
  • Congenital abnormalities of the atrioventricular valves
  • Other congenital cardiovascular abnormalities.
  • Myxomatous atrioventricular valvular degeneration
  • Primary myocardial disease leading to chronic myocardial failure (dilated cardiomyopathy and related diseases)
  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
  • Feline unclassified and restrictive cardiomyopathy
  • Heartworm infestation and disease (dirofilariasis)
  • Infective endocarditis (and annuloaortic ectasia)
  • Pericardial disease and cardiac neoplasia
  • Pulmonary arterial and systemic arterial hypertension.
  • Diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmias (dysrhythmias)
  • Syncope
  • Drugs used in treatmennt of cardiac arrhythmias
  • Interventional antiarrhythmic therapy
  • Thromboembolic disease
  • The Effects of systemic disease on the cardiovascular system.