Christophe W. Lombard

TL;DR: Recommendations are presented for standardized imaging planes and display conventions for two-dimensional echocardiography in the dog and cat and adoption of these standards should facilitate consistent performance, recording, teaching, and communicating results of studies obtained by two- dimensional echOCardiography.

TL;DR: Pimobendan plus conventional therapy prolongs time to sudden death, euthanasia for cardiac reasons, or treatment failure in dogs with CHF caused by MMVD compared with benazeprilplus conventional therapy.

TL;DR: Adoption of these standards should facilitate consistent performance, recording, teaching, and communicating results of studies obtained by two-dimensional echocardiography in the dog and cat.

TL;DR: The authors highly recommend against tranquilization of the patients, as blood flow velocities are affected by most sedatives, and obtaining comparable studies with little interobserver variability due to the data acquisition procedure is recommended.

TL;DR: Dogs with clinical acquired atrioventricular valvular disease were evaluated to determine the efficacy of pimobendan versus benazepril hydrochloride in a randomized, positive-controlled, multicenter study, and in a subgroup of dogs with concurrent furosemide treatment the Heart Insufficiency Score improved in favor of pimOBendan.