Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is common in dogs with degenerative valvular disease (DVD) and is caused by an increase in left atrial pressure and pulmonary venous pressure. Cardiac catheterization is considered the gold standard for the diagnosis of PH. Tricuspid regurgitation (TR), measured by Doppler echocardiography, is commonly used in the clinic to determine the pressure gradient (PG) of TR reflecting pulmonary arterial systolic pressure (PAP). For the characterization of the echocardiographic parameters of pulmonary pressure in canines with DVD, 161 echocardiographic cases and the respective clinical histories of the patients admitted to the Veterinary Cardiology Unit of the city of Bogotá in a period of 8 months (November 2016 - June 2017) were evaluated. All patients diagnosed with DVD were grouped within the classification of the American College Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACV...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is common in dogs with degenerative valvular disease (DVD) and is caused by an increase in left atrial pressure and pulmonary venous pressure. Cardiac catheterization is considered the gold standard for the diagnosis of PH. Tricuspid regurgitation (TR), measured by Doppler echocardiography, is commonly used in the clinic to determine the pressure gradient (PG) of TR reflecting pulmonary arterial systolic pressure (PAP). For the characterization of the echocardiographic parameters of pulmonary pressure in canines with DVD, 161 echocardiographic cases and the respective clinical histories of the patients admitted to the Veterinary Cardiology Unit of the city of Bogotá in a period of 8 months (November 2016 - June 2017) were evaluated. All patients diagnosed with DVD were grouped within the classification of the American College Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACV...