Uso do ecocardiograma na avaliação cardíaca de bovinos

Resumo

Heart disease in cattle are causes of high economic losses by rebound in animal production rates affected by these diseases, which can have the diagnosis facilitated through tools such as echocardiography. Echocardiography is a diagnostic test with high applicability in cattle clinic to diagnose cardiopathies obtaining information on cardiac morphology and hemodynamic function, non-invasively. Because of the wide applicability of this examination in Buiatrics aimed with this literature, group and discuss aspects related to its use in bovine practice, addressing the normal parameters and echocardiographic findings in major cardiopathies of the bovine species.

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Palavras-chave

Cardiopatias, Ruminantes, Ultrassom, Heart disease, Ultrasound, Ruminants

Citação

RODRIGUES, Milenna Karoline Fernandes; CARVALHO, Rosângela de Oliveira Alves; SANTOS JÚNIOR, Marcelo Borges dos; SANT'ANA, Fabiano José Ferreira de; CUNHA, Paulo Henrique Jorge da. Uso do ecocardiograma na avaliação cardíaca de bovinos. Enciclopédia Biosfera, Goiânia, v. 11, n. 22, p. 2749-2771, dez. 2015.