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Title page
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Dedications
Preface
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SECTION A: Clinical Entities
1 Heart Murmurs and Gallop Heart Sounds
INTRODUCTION
HEART MURMURS
GALLOP HEART SOUNDS
2 Exercise Intolerance and Syncope
INTRODUCTION
ETIOLOGY AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
SIGNALMENT
HISTORY AND CHIEF COMPLAINT
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
DIAGNOSTIC TESTING
TREATMENT
OUTCOME AND PROGNOSIS
EXERCISE INTOLERANCE
3 Pleural Effusion
4 Dyspnea and Cough
5 Cardiopulmonary Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation
CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST
DIAGNOSIS
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
TREATMENT
OUTCOME
SECTION B: Diagnostic Testing
6 Radiography
7 Echocardiography
INTRODUCTION
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY BASICS
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC EQUIPMENT
PERFORMING THE ECHOCARDIOGRAM
ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF DIASTOLIC FUNCTION
CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY
8 Cardiac Biomarkers
INTRODUCTION
HOMOCYST(E)INE AND B VITAMINS
ENDOTHELIN I
CARDIAC TROPONINS
NATRIURETIC PEPTIDES (ATRIAL AND B-TYPE NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; ANP AND BNP)
9 Electrocardiography
INTRODUCTION
TECHNIQUE
NORMAL EVOLUTION OF THE ECG THROUGH LIFE
HOLTER AND EVENT MONITORING
SECTION C: Congenital Heart Disease
10 Congenital Heart Malformations
INTRODUCTION
HISTORY AND CHIEF COMPLAINT
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
COMPLICATIONS AND MONITORING
ATRIOVENTRICULAR VALVE MALFORMATIONS: TRICUSPID VALVE MALFORMATION
MITRAL VALVE MALFORMATION/DYSPLASIA
MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS
VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT
AORTIC STENOSIS
ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECT
COMMON AV CANAL (ENDOCARDIAL CUSHION DEFECT)
COR TRIATRIATUM SINISTER
DOUBLE CHAMBER RIGHT VENTRICLE
PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS
PULMONIC STENOSIS, PULMONARY ARTERY STENOSIS
TETRALOGY OF FALLOT
SECTION D: Cardiomyopathies
11 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
INTRODUCTION
ETIOLOGY
GROSS PATHOLOGY
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
SIGNALMENT
HISTORY AND CHIEF COMPLAINT
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
DIAGNOSTIC TESTING
TREATMENT
COMPLICATIONS AND MONITORING
OUTCOME AND PROGNOSIS
12 Restrictive/Unclassified Cardiomyopathy
RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY
ETIOLOGY, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, AND GROSS PATHOLOGY
SIGNALMENT
HISTORY AND CHIEF COMPLAINT
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
DIAGNOSTIC TESTING
TREATMENT
COMPLICATIONS AND MONITORING
OUTCOME AND PROGNOSIS
13 Dilated Cardiomyopathy
INTRODUCTION
ETIOLOGY, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, AND GROSS PATHOLOGY
SIGNALMENT
HISTORY AND CHIEF COMPLAINT
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
DIAGNOSTIC TESTING
TREATMENT
COMPLICATIONS AND MONITORING
OUTCOME AND PROGNOSIS
14 Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
INTRODUCTION
ETIOLOGY, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, AND GROSS PATHOLOGY
SIGNALMENT
HISTORY AND CHIEF COMPLAINT
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
DIAGNOSTIC TESTING
TREATMENT
COMPLICATIONS AND MONITORING
OUTCOME AND PROGNOSIS
SECTION E: Other Forms of Structural Heart Disease
15 Acquired Valvular Disease
DEGENERATIVE VALVE DISEASE
DIAGNOSIS
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS
16 Cardiac Neoplasia
INTRODUCTION
PREVALENCE, ETIOLOGY, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, AND GROSS PATHOLOGY
SIGNALMENT
HISTORY AND CHIEF COMPLAINT
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
DIAGNOSTIC TESTING
TREATMENT
OUTCOME AND PROGNOSIS
17 Miscellaneous Myocardial Disease
MYOCARDITIS
ENDOCARDIAL FIBROELASTOSIS
EXCESSIVE LEFT VENTRICULAR MODERATOR BANDS
SECTION F: Arrhythmias and Other Electrocardiographic Abnormalities
18 Arrhythmias and Other Electrocardiographic Abnormalities
INTRODUCTION
ETIOLOGY, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, AND GROSS PATHOLOGY
CLINICAL ELECTROCARDIOLOGY
SPECIFIC ARRHYTHMIAS
CARDIAC EFFECTS OF SYSTEMIC POTASSIUM AND CALCIUM ABNORMALITIES
MORPHOLOGIC ECG ABNORMALITIES
SECTION G: Congestive Heart Failure
19 Congestive Heart Failure
DEFINITIONS
INTRODUCTION
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND GROSS PATHOLOGY
SIGNALMENT
HISTORY AND CHIEF COMPLAINT
PRECIPITATING FACTORS THAT MAY CONTRIBUTE TO CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
DIAGNOSTIC TESTING
TREATMENT
COMPLICATIONS AND MONITORING
OUTCOME AND PROGNOSIS
SECTION H: Arterial Thromboembolism
20 Arterial Thromboembolism
INTRODUCTION
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND GROSS PATHOLOGY
SIGNALMENT
HISTORY AND CHIEF COMPLAINT
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
DIAGNOSTIC TESTING
TREATMENT
COMPLICATIONS AND MONITORING
LONG-TERM OUTCOME AND PROGNOSIS
SECTION I: Systemic Hypertension
21 Systemic Hypertension
INTRODUCTION
ETIOLOGY, PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, AND GROSS PATHOLOGY
SIGNALMENT
HISTORY AND CHIEF COMPLAINT
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS
DIAGNOSTIC TESTING
TREATMENT
MONITORING
OUTCOME AND PROGNOSIS
SECTION J: Pericardial Diseases
22 Pericardial Effusion and Other Disorders of the Pericardium
INTRODUCTION
CONGENITAL PERICARDIAL DISEASES
ACQUIRED PERICARDIAL DISEASES
CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS
SECTION K: Heartworm Disease
23 Heartworm Disease
INTRODUCTION
ETIOLOGY AND LIFE CYCLE
HISTORY, CHIEF COMPLAINT, PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
DIAGNOSIS
TREATMENT
MONITORING
OUTCOME AND PROGNOSIS
SECTION L: Comorbidities
24 Comorbidities: Managing Cats That Have Coexistent Cardiac Disease and Extracardiac Disorders
INTRODUCTION
CONCURRENT HEART DISEASE AND KIDNEY DISEASE
CARDIAC DISEASE AND IDIOPATHIC CYSTITIS/FELINE LOWER URINARY TRACT SIGNS
CARDIAC DISEASE AND FELINE ASTHMA
CONCURRENT CARDIAC DISEASE AND OTHER DISORDERS TREATED WITH GLUCOCORTICOIDS
CARDIAC DISEASE AND UNRELATED PLEURAL EFFUSION
CRITICAL CARE REQUIRING FLUID THERAPY IN THE CAT WITH HEART DISEASE
SECTION M: Pulmonary Arterial Disorders
25 Pulmonary Thromboembolism and Pulmonary Hypertension
PULMONARY THROMBOEMBOLISM
PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION
SECTION N: Endocrine Diseases Affecting the Heart
26 Endocrine Diseases Affecting the Heart
HYPERTHYROIDISM
OTHER ENDOCRINOPATHIES
SECTION O: Anesthesia in the Patient with Cardiac Disease
27 Anesthesia in the Patient with Cardiac Disease
INTRODUCTION
PREANESTHETIC PREPARATION
ANESTHESIA
ANESTHETIZING THE FRACTIOUS CAT
SUPPORT AND MONITORING
TREATMENT
POSTOPERATIVE MONITORING AND RECOVERY
PLANNING ANESTHESIA IN THE CARDIAC PATIENT WITHOUT AN ECHOCARDIOGRAM
SECTION P: Cardiac Screening Programs
28 Cardiac Screening Programs
INTRODUCTION
CONGENITAL DEFECTS
HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY
GENETIC SCREENING
OTHER FORMS OF CARDIOMYOPATHY
SECTION Q: Which Drug for Which Disease?
29 Which Drug for Which Disease?
INTRODUCTION
HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY—COMPENSATED (“ASYMPTOMATIC”)
DILATED CARDIOMYOPATHY (DCM)
RESTRICTIVE/UNCLASSIFIED CARDIOMYOPATHY
CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
AORTIC THROMBOEMBOLISM
SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION
CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE
ARRHYTHMIAS
SECTION R: Drug Formulary
30 Drug Formulary
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