Studies on the physiopathology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the horse. II. Right heart haemodynamics

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Littlejohn, A.
Bowles, Felicity

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Pretoria : The Government Printer

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.

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Horses -- Diseases, Pulmonary disease

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Littlejohn, A & Bowles, F 1980, 'Studies on the physiopathology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the horse. II. Right heart haemodynamics’, Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 187-192.