Today's Daily Dose: Cardiology
Help for diagnosing and treating chronic valvular heart disease in dogs.
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“The guidelines spell out areas of unanimous current consensus that provide a practical guide for your day-to-day practice (e.g. standard therapy for dogs with clinical signs of heart failure caused by mitral valve insufficiency should ideally include a combination of furosemide, pimobendan, and an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor).”
-Bruce Keene, DVM, MSc, DACVIM (cardiology)
From Leading Off: Guidelines make managing canine heart disease more clear-cut
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