Cardiopatias em felinos domésticos: revisão de literatura

Abstract

Cardiomyopathies are responsible for causing most cases of heart failure in domestic felines. They are classified according to morphology and can be: Primary Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Dilated Cardiomyopathy, Restrictive Cardiomyopathy, Unclassified Cardiomyopathy, Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy and acquired valvular diseases. PHC is the main condition affecting the myocardium of felines. However, other forms of cardiovascular diseases, even if they occur with lower incidence, are of great importance to veterinary medicine. Therefore, clinical knowledge about the clinical presentation and the forms of treatment available for diagnosis and differential of these diseases is extremely important. To this end, this work focused on the main cardiac muscle disorders that affect domestic felines, as well as the diagnostic methods available to identify them, the specificities and sensitivity of each one, with emphasis on echocardiography, considered the gold standard for diagnosing cardiomyopathies.