%0 Journal Article
%A Falcón-Cordón, Soraya
%A Falcón-Cordón, Yaiza
%A Caro Vadillo, Alicia
%A Costa Rodríguez, Noelia
%A Montoya Alonso, José Alberto
%A Carretón, Elena
%T Association between Thoracic Radiographic Changes and Indicators of Pulmonary Hypertension in Dogs with Heartworm Disease
%D 2024
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/107500
%X Simple Summary: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a high-risk condition in dogs with heartworm disease (Dirofilaria immitis). Echocardiography is the diagnostic technique of choice to detect PH; however, it is not accessible to all routine clinicians. Therefore, given the importance of this condition during an infection with D. immitis, the aim of this study was to evaluate the association of the radiological findings in dogs with heartworm disease and the presence or absence of echocardiographically characterised PH. The results obtained suggest that the evaluation of certain radiographic measures may be useful in the preliminary evaluation of the thoracic radiographs of a dog as a preliminary screening when assessing whether to perform complementary tests to evaluate the presence of PH in dogs with heartworm disease.
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