Research Communications of the 27(th) ECVIM-CA Congress: Intercontinental, Saint Julian's, Malta, 14th to 16th September 2017

Disclosures: Disclosures to report. SDMA was determined by IDEXX Laboratories and the cost of the analysis was partially reduced. The assessment of the severity of left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy in human medicine consists of three main cardiac parameters: LV wall thickness, LV mass (LVM) and LV geometry. The latter is assessed either by LVM/body surface area (BSA) and relative wall thickness, RWT. Based on LV geometry, the LV is classified as normal if LVM/BSA and RWT are within reference ranges, concentric remodeling as normal LVM and increased RWT, concentric hypertrophy as increased LVM and RWT and eccentric hypertrophy as normal/decreased RWT and increased LVM. Data about normal values for LVM and RWT are scant in dogs.