Effect of cilobradine in cats with a first episode of congestive heart failure due to primary cardiomyopathy.

Introduction: Heart rate (HR) is often elevated in cats with cardiomyopathies (CMPs). Pharmacologic modulation of HR may reduce cardiac morbidity and mortality.

Objectives: To investigate the effects of cilobradine vs.

Necropsy findings in a cat with diabetes mellitus and heart failure.

Case Summary: A 7-year-old male neutered domestic shorthair cat, previously diagnosed and treated for diabetes mellitus (DM), subsequently presented in heart failure (HF). Echocardiography revealed biatrial and biventricular dilation with poor myocardial function, and a left atrial-to-aortic ratio of 1.95:1.

Evaluation of benazepril in cats with heart disease in a prospective, randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial.

Background: Heart disease is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in cats, but there is limited evidence of the benefit of any medication.

Hypothesis: The angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor benazepril would delay the time to treatment failure in cats with heart disease of various etiologies.

Animals: One hundred fifty-one client-owned cats.

Rapid assessment with physical examination in dyspnoeic cats: the RAPID CAT study.

Objectives: To determine the underlying disease prevalence in acute feline dyspnoea and to examine whether historical and clinical examination findings can differentiate between acute cardiac and non-cardiac dyspnoea in cats in primary practice.

Materials And Methods: We prospectively enrolled cats presenting with dyspnoea for the first time to primary practice between June 1, 2011 and October 31, 2016. We collected signalment, historical and clinical data at presentation using a standard form.

Heart rate turbulence after ventricular premature beats in healthy Doberman pinschers and those with dilated cardiomyopathy.

Objectives: To describe the measurement of heart rate turbulence (HRT) after ventricular premature beats and compare HRT in healthy Doberman pinschers and those with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), with and without congestive heart failure (CHF).

Animals: Sixty-five client-owned Dobermans: 20 healthy (NORMAL), 31 with preclinical DCM and 14 with DCM and CHF (DCM + CHF).

Methods: A retrospective study of data retrieved from clinical records and ambulatory ECG (Holter) archives, including data collected previously for a large-scale prospective study of Dobermans with preclinical DCM.

Purring in cats during auscultation: how common is it, and can we stop it?

Objectives: When cats purr during examination it is difficult to perform auscultation. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of purring in cats during examination, and identify interventions that could be used to stop purring.

Methods: Cats seen at a first opinion clinic were enrolled in the study and their purring status recorded.

Heart failure is common in diabetic cats: findings from a retrospective case-controlled study in first-opinion practice.

Objectives: To study the prognosis and cause of death in cats with diabetes mellitus.

Methods: Twenty consecutive cases of feline diabetes mellitus diagnosed in first-opinion practice were followed. Three control cats, without diabetes, were matched to each case of diabetes; these were also followed.

Carriage of Malassezia spp. yeasts in healthy and seborrhoeic Devon Rex cats.

Skin and anal mucosal carriage of Malassezia spp. yeasts was investigated in 21 healthy Devon Rex cats (DRC) and in 9 seborrhoeic DRC using swabs and contact plates. M.

Treatment of Malassezia pachydermatis-associated seborrhoeic dermatitis in Devon Rex cats with itraconazole--a pilot study.

Treatment of Malassezia pachydermatis-associated seborrhoeic dermatitis with oral itraconazole was investigated in six Devon Rex cats (DRC). The cutaneous populations of Malassezia were determined using contact plates and a swab-wash method before and after 21 days of pulse treatment with itraconazole (5 mg kg-1 once daily, 7 days on, 7 days off, 7 days on). Before treatment, all cats had greasy seborrhoeic dermatitis involving the axillae, groin, claw folds and palmar and plantar interdigital skin, and two had similar lesions on the ventral neck.

Hypoglycaemic bradycardia and circulatory collapse in a dog and a cat.

Hypoglycaemia was accompanied by sinus bradycardia and circulatory collapse in a dog and a cat. In each case, when the hypoglycaemia was corrected by intravenous infusion of a glucose solution the bradycardia and circulatory failure were soon abolished, indicating that these abnormalities were caused by the hypoglycaemia. Similar observations have been made in human patients.