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What value may there be to prescribing a loop diuretic to a dog diagnosed with myxomatous mitral valve disease (MMVD) but not yet in Stage C (CHF)?

I have been hearing from a few MMVD-diagnosed dog owners that their veterinarians are prescribing furosemide to the dogs even though they have not yet been diagnosed as being in congestive heart...

22 October 2018 4,565 2 View

Should EPIC Study's echocardiograph enrollment criteria (LA/Ao ≥ 1.6 and LVIDDN ≥ 1.7) determine whether a MMVD-dog should start pimobendan?

The 2016 EPIC Study of administering pimobendan to dogs diagnosed with myxomatous mitral valve disease (MMVD) defined dilatation for its echocardiograph enrollment criteria as LA/Ao ≥ 1.6 and...

01 January 2018 9,643 8 View