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USE OF VERTEBRAL HEART SCORE IN COUGHING DOGS WITH CHRONIC DEGENERATIVE MITRAL VALVE DISEASE
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- The objective of the present study was to evaluate the usefulness of the vertebral heart score (VHS) in coughing dogs with chronic degenerative mitral valve disease (MVD). Survey thoracic radiographs of 90 dogs with a history of cough and clinical and echocardiographic evidence of MVD were evaluated by 2 independent observers. The observers were asked to first determine the origin of the cough as cardiac, non-cardiac or mixed and then to measure the VHS. Agreement regarding diagnosis of the origin of cough was obtained (kappa=0.64) in 69 dogs. Of these 69 dogs, 28 (41%), 32 (46%) and 9 (13%) had a cough of cardiac, non-cardiac and mixed origin, respectively. The dogs with a cough of non-cardiac origin had a significantly lower VHS (mean +/- SD, 11 +/- 0.9) compared with those of dogs with a cough of cardiac or mixed origin (12.8 +/- 1 and 12.9 +/- 0.9, respectively). Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed that a VHS < or = 11.4 is fairly accurate for exclusion of a cough of cardiac origin in dogs with MVD. The results indicate that the VHS may be an additional tool for differentiating the origin of cough in dogs with MVD.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Radiography
Heart Valve Diseases
canine and feline
cardiology
echocardiography
heart
radiology
CANINE AND FELINE
Chronic degenerative mitral valve disease
Dogs
Predictive Value of Tests
Internal medicine
medicine
Animals
Body Weights and Measures
Dog Diseases
CARDIOLOGY
General Veterinary
Receiver operating characteristic
business.industry
RADIOLOGY
respiratory tract diseases
Cough
Research Design
Predictive value of tests
Heart score
cardiovascular system
Cardiology
Mitral Valve
HEART
Female
business
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....951db44e91b6fc013d4acd071f4b19f8