Insuficiência cardíaca em cães - revisão de literatura.

Abstract

Heart failure in dogs - literature review. The objective of this essay is to present a literary review of heart failure on dogs, knowing that it is the outcome of severe heart diseases that have been affecting a large number of animals. It has been done a theoretical approach about the circulatory system with anatomical and physiological considerations, already associated with the pathophysiology of the disease as it promotes retention of sodium and water, increasing blood pressure, thus, numerous compensatory mechanisms perform the maintenance of the cardiac output. The disease is divided in frames of severity and each of then originate from various causes. Along with these informations some treatment protocols, due to huge divergences about it, since the main goal is to extend the lifetime associated with quality of life. And finally there is a detailing of the clinical and laboratory diagnosis currently available on the market. Using this essay one must have in mind the specificity that each patient has, so as the breed and age patterns, thus it is a tool for study and theoretical basis for clinical evaluation of an animal with suspected heart failure.