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. 2019 Apr;13(4):731-738.
doi: 10.14202/vetworld.2020.731-738. Epub 2020 Apr 20.

Left ventricular myocardial remodeling in dogs with mitral valve endocardiosis

Yury A Vatnikov  1 , Andrey A Rudenko  2 , Boris V Usha  2 , Evgeny V Kulikov  1 , Elena A Notina  1 , Irina A Bykova  1 , Nadiya I Khairova  1 , Irina V Bondareva  1 , Victor N Grishin  1 , Andrey N Zharov  1
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Left ventricular myocardial remodeling in dogs with mitral valve endocardiosis

Yury A Vatnikov et al. Vet World. 2019 Apr.

Abstract

Background and aim: Left ventricular myocardial remodeling could play an important role in the progression of chronic heart failure (CHF) syndrome in dogs with mitral valve endocardiosis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the left ventricular myocardial remodeling in dogs with mitral valve endocardiosis and to study the dependence of the incidence of this pathological phenomenon on the functional class (FC) of progression of the CHF syndrome.

Materials and methods: A total of 108 afflicted dogs and 36 clinically healthy dogs were examined using transthoracic echocardiography. The following structural and geometric parameters of the left ventricular remodeling were evaluated: Myocardial mass and its index, sphericity index at the end of systole and diastole, end-systolic and end-diastolic relative wall thickness, and integral remodeling index.

Results: In all clinically healthy dogs, a normal type of the left ventricular chamber geometry was revealed, whereas, in dogs with mitral valve endocardiosis, the normal geometry of the left ventricle occurred in 56.4%, eccentric hypertrophy in 24.1%, concentric remodeling in 10.2%, and concentric hypertrophy in 9.3% of the cases. In patients with endocardiosis, there was no dilatation type of cardiac remodeling observed.

Conclusion: When compared to the clinically healthy animals, the dogs with mitral valve endocardiosis presented with indicators of structural and geometric remodeling, such as increased myocardial mass, myocardial mass index, and sphericity index at the end of systole and diastole, as well as relatively reduced integral systolic index of remodeling and systolic relative thickness of the walls of the heart. The parameters of the left ventricular myocardial remodeling correlated significantly with the FC of CHF syndrome.

Keywords: dogs; endocardiosis; heart failure; mitral regurgitation; myocardial remodeling.

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Left ventricular myocardial remodeling in dogs with mitral valve endocardiosis. (a, c) Normal geometry; (b, d, f) eccentric hypertrophy; and (e) concentric hypertrophy.
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