TY  - BOOK
AU  - Samar Hassan Hussien Elsharkawy 
AU  - Faisal Abdelsamad Torad , 
AU  - Inas Nabil Elhusseiny , 
AU  - Ranya Ali Hegazy , 
TI  - The use of some diagnostic techniques for evaluation of the cardiac size in normal dogs / 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cairo : 
PB  - Samar Hassan Hussien Elsharkawy , 
KW  - Cardiac size
KW  - Heart size
KW  - Normal dogs
N1  - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - Department of Surgery, Anaesthesiology and Radiology; Issued also as CD
N2  - Heart size determination is an efficient step in evaluating patients with heart  diseases. Various diagnostic modalities have been used to evaluate cardiac size  including thoracic radiography, echocardiography and electrocardiography. In  the present study, 67 apparently healthy dogs were assigned to six groups of  different ages, weights and sexes according to the breed. The thoracic  radiographs were evaluated subjectively and objectively according to  standardized methods. The echocardiographic measurements and the ECG  parameters were recorded for each dog. The breed type had no influence on the  subjective radiographic measurements except for the cardiac length to the  thoracic depth ratio technique, while it had an influence on both objective  measurements. The echocardiographic measurements revealed significant  differences between the different breeds. The ECG values showed insignificant  differences among all breeds. We concluded that objective measurements are  more accurate than the subjective measurements in the evaluation of the cardiac  size. Accurate heart size evaluation requires the integration of all diagnostic tools  guided by breed specific values to reach an accurate diagnosis
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