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Incidentally detected heart murmurs in dogs and cats: executive summary 2015
Author(s) -
Côté E.,
Edwards N. J.,
Ettinger S. J.,
Fuentes V. L.,
MacDonald K. A.,
Scansen B. A.,
Sisson D. D.,
Abbott J. A.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of small animal practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1748-5827
pISSN - 0022-4510
DOI - 10.1111/jsap.12405
Subject(s) - specialty , medicine , cardiology , heart murmur , family medicine
The need to evaluate a patient with an incidentally-detected heart murmur depends on the client (e.g., cost, pre-existing notions of importance, concern/anxiety), the patient (features of the heart murmur, concurrent diseases or signs, lineage), and the veterinarian (confidence in the likely underlying cause based on examination alone, perception of severity of the cause). The specific approach can change from case to case.