Abstract:
Pressure curves obtained by cardiac catheterization of the pulmonary artery, right ventricle and right atrium of 9 horses and ponies with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were compared with those similarly recorded from 6 clinically normal control subjects.
The mean pulmonary peak systolic, pulmonary minimum diastolic and ventricular peak systolic pressures of the COPD subjects were significantly higher (P< 0,01) than the corresponding mean pressures of the clinically normal control subjects. The mean pressures calculated from pressure curves obtained from 8 Thoroughbreds in training did not differ significantly from those of the clinically normal subjects not in training.
