Retrospective evaluation of a right heart parameter score in the assessment of precapillary pulmonary hypertension in dogs (2017-2021): 135 cases.

Objective: To determine if emergency and critical care residents can identify moderate to severe precapillary pulmonary hypertension on cardiologist-obtained cineloops using a pulmonary hypertension score (PHS) and report the interobserver variability of the PHS.

Design: Multicenter, retrospective, case-control study from 2017 to 2021.

Setting: Private referral center and veterinary teaching hospital.

Left atrial measurement in lateral sternal recumbency in cats undergoing focused cardiac ultrasound examination.

Objective: To compare left atrial measurements carried out by an emergency and critical care (ECC) clinician on cats in lateral and sternal recumbency.

Animals And Procedures: A prospective observational study was conducted between December 2019 and January 2021 at the university teaching hospital at University of Liège. One hundred and two hospitalized cats were enrolled.

A retrospective study on parapneumonic effusion in 130 dogs with a clinical diagnosis of pneumonia.

Objective: To screen the occurrence of parapneumonic effusion in dogs.

Methods: Medical records were searched for dogs with a presumptive diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia from 2017 to 2021 at the Liege university teaching hospital. Bacterial pneumonia was presumptively diagnosed based on compatible clinical signs and findings; thoracic radiographs compatible with bacterial bronchopneumonia; and either increased serum C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, a positive bronchoalveolar lavage culture or a positive clinical evolution in response to antibiotic therapy.