Bond B R
Animal Medical Center, New York, NY 10021.
Probl Vet Med. 1991 Dec;3(4):520-54.
Echocardiography in veterinary medicine has both enhanced our ability to diagnose and treat cardiac diseases in small animals and added confusion to what we already know. Because we can actually see the heart beating and visualize blood flows within the cardiac chambers as well as measure velocities of blood flows, we have a tool that increases our non-invasive diagnostic abilities. On the other hand, the lines between different heart diseases are not always clear-cut, and the more we learn about heart disease the more we see the shades of distinction between different diseases become blurred. This chapter will look at the main abnormalities we see in veterinary medicine (mitral regurgitation, pericardial disease, and the different feline and canine cardiomyopathies) and will attempt to help the veterinary echocardiographer avoid common problems encountered in acquired heart disease as well as use echocardiographic information to gain a better understanding of the disease process occurring in animals.
兽医学中的超声心动图既增强了我们诊断和治疗小动物心脏疾病的能力，也给我们已有的认知增添了困惑。因为我们实际上能够看到心脏跳动，可视化心腔内的血流，并测量血流速度，所以我们拥有了一种增强无创诊断能力的工具。另一方面，不同心脏疾病之间的界限并不总是清晰的，而且我们对心脏病了解得越多，就越会发现不同疾病之间的细微差别变得模糊不清。本章将探讨我们在兽医学中看到的主要异常情况（二尖瓣反流、心包疾病以及不同的猫科和犬科心肌病），并试图帮助兽医超声心动图检查人员避免在后天性心脏病中遇到的常见问题，以及利用超声心动图信息更好地了解动物体内发生的疾病过程。
