TY - JOUR ID - 53230 TI - Echocardiographic findings in athletic horses with pulmonary regurgitation JO - Iranian Journal of Veterinary Medicine JA - IJVM LA - en SN - 2251-8894 AU - Rostami, Abdolrazagh AU - Masoudifard, Majid AU - Vajhi, Alireza AU - Mokhber Dezfouli, Mohammad Reza AU - Rezakhani, Ali AU - Tavanaeimanesh, Hamid AU - Bahonar, Alireza AD - Department of Surgery and Radiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran AD - Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran AD - 3Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran AD - Department of Food Hygiene and Quality Control, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2015 PY - 2015 VL - 9 IS - 1 SP - 7 EP - 12 KW - equine KW - Pulmonary valve KW - regurgitation KW - Echocardiography DO - 10.22059/ijvm.2015.53230 N2 - BACKGROUND: Determining the clinical significance of cardiac murmurs is widely considered in equine practice. Pulmonary murmurs are commonly detected in athletic horses. Echocardiography plays a leading role in assessment of these murmurs. OBJECTIVES: Echocardiographic evaluation of horses with pulmonary regurgitation and determining the importance of pulmonary valve murmurs. METHODS: A total number of 450 athletic horses were examined with focus on cardiac and respiratory systems and 18 horses (8 horses with pulmonary murmur grades 3 and 4 and 10 normal horses) were included in echocardiographic examination. RESULTS: B-mode, M-mode, color flow Doppler and spectral Doppler were performed on two groups and the calculated indices were compared. No statistical difference was found between the values of the two groups (p<0.05). CONCLUSIONS: No significant correlation was found between severity of murmurs grade and the severity of regurgitating jets. We found that with moderate grades of pulmonary regurgitation, no change in cardiac indices is present. UR - https://ijvm.ut.ac.ir/article_53230.html L1 - https://ijvm.ut.ac.ir/article_53230_b9f4b29819d680c72364dff384193423.pdf ER -