Publications by authors named "Maureen Levesque"
Interpretation of cardiac chamber size on canine thoracic radiographs is limited and may result in the false identification of right-sided cardiomegaly in the presence of severe left-sided cardiomegaly.
Elodie E Huguet Federico Vilaplana Grosso Whitney R Lamb Margaret M Sleeper John Mattoon Maureen Levesque
Vet Radiol Ultrasound
November 2021
Article Synopsis
- The study evaluated how well thoracic radiographs detect cardiac chamber enlargement in dogs, using echocardiography as the benchmark.
- It found that severe left-sided cardiomegaly can lead to misinterpretation as right-sided enlargement on radiographs.
- The results showed moderate agreement among radiologists when assessing heart size, but overall radiographic accuracy was low, especially when significant left-sided enlargement was present.