OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of cardiomyopathy and the relationship between cardiomyopathy and heart murmurs in apparently healthy cats. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. ANIMALS 103 privately owned, apparently healthy domestic cats. PROCEDURES Cats were physically and echocardiographically examined by 2 investigators independently. Left ventricular wall thickness was determined via ...

The author describes some auscultory findings in ventricular tachycardia, which will aid the reader when he is confronted with diagnosing either supraventricular tachycardia or ventricular tachycardia. An excellent chapter discusses evaluation of the severity of hypertension based on auscultory findings. These also come from the author's studies. The author, in a chapter on functional and innoc...

ASSOCIATION of cardiac murmurs with the Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome has been reported by several investigators .1 In the reported cases, however, the murmurs were not directly attributed to hemodynamic alterations produced by pre-excitation. This communication describes three patients with systolic murmurs related to pre-excitation. In one patient the murmur was heard only when the ele...