Continuous electrocardiographic monitoring in dogs with mitral valve mixomatic degeneration
Keywords:
Mysomatous valva degeneration, Mitral, Arrhythmias, Dogs, HolterAbstract
Myxomatous Valve Degeneration (DMV) represents a chronic degenerative process of the atrioventricular leaflets, preventing their perfect coaptation. Consequently, the activation of congestive compensatory mechanisms and the beginning of an important symptomatology may occur. In many cases this disease is correlated with the occurrence of important arrhythmias. In this work, two clinical cases of DMV in patients with different functional classification according to the American College of Internal Veterinary Medicine criteria are described under clinical and arrhythmogenic aspects, one in stage B1 and the other in chronic stage D. The findings indicate that cardiac arrhythmias are recurrent events in patients with Myxomatous Mitral Valve Degeneration (DMVM), and that even in the early stages without remodeling, they may be present in low density; as well as in the advanced stages, the cardiac remodeling index it may be directly correlated with the incidence of arrhythmias commonly described in the literature, or other more serious ones not reported, such as sinus dysfunction.
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