2017 ACVIM Forum Research Abstract Program

Echocardiographic evaluation of RV was performed in all dogs and followed the recommendation of the Guidelines for the echocardiographic assessment of the right heart endorsed by the European Association of Echocardiography. The parameter assessed was tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE), acquired by placing an M-mode cursor through the tricuspid annulus and measuring the amount of longitudinal motion of the annulus at peak systole an apical 4-chamber window. Once TAPSE varies according patient 0 s weight it was indexed by aortic diameter (TAPSEidx). The data was submitted to normality test, the analysis between groups was performed by one way ANOVA test (P < 0.05) and means were compared by Tukey test.