SMALL ANIMAL CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE

Mark D. Kittleson, DVM, PhD; Richard D. Kienle, DVM

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Cardiac Embryology and Anatomy
2. Normal Clinical Cardiovascular Physiology
3. Signalment, History, and Physical Examination
4. Radiography of the Cardiovascular System
5. Electrocardiography: Basic Concepts, Diagnosis of Chamber Enlargement, and Intraventricular Conduction Disturbances
6. Echocardiography
7. Cardiac Catheterization
8. Classification of Heart Disease by Echocardiographic Determination of Functional Status
9. Pathophysiology of Heart Failure
10. Management of Heart Failure
11. The Approach to the Patient with Cardiac Disease
12. Patent Ductus Arteriosus
13. Septal Defects
14. Tetralogy of Fallot
15. Congenital Pulmonic Stenosis
16. Aortic Stenosis
17. Congenital Abnormalities of the Atrioventricular Valves
18. Other Congenital Cardiovascular Abnormalities
19. Myxomatous Atrioventricular Valvular Degeneration
20. Primary Myocardial Disease Leading to Chronic Myocardial Failure (Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Related Diseases)
21. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
22. Feline Unclassified and Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
23. Heartworm Infestation and Disease (Dirofilariasis)
24. Infective Endocarditis (and Annuloaortic Ectasis)
25. Pericardial Disease and Cardiac Neoplasia
26. Pulmonary Arterial and Systemic Arterial Hypertension
27. Diagnosis and Treatment of Arrhythmias (Dysrhythmias)
28. Syncope
29. Drugs Used in the Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
30. Interventional Antiarrhythmic Therapy
31. Thromboembolic Disease
32. The Effects of Systemic Disease on the Cardiovascular System