RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS OF THE 28th ECVIM-CA CONGRESS

Fifty‐three client‐owned dogs with complete clinical, electro‐ and echocardiographic examinations were enrolled in the study. A fasting blood sample was collected for diagnostic purposes and sent to a commercial veterinary laboratory where CBC and general biochemistry, including the serum uric acid concentration, were evaluated. Dogs with normal kidney and liver function were then assigned to the chronic heart failure group (CHF group, 17 dogs), CHF with AF group (CHF+AF group, 20 dogs) and the control group (16 dogs). The non‐parametric Kruskal‐Wallis analysis followed Dunn's post‐hoc multiple comparisons test were applied to test for statistically significant differences between the groups.