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ArticleJournal of veterinary internal medicine

Observed and expected reliability of echocardiographic volumetric methods and critical change values for quantification of mitral regurgitant fraction in dogs.

Kerry A Loughran, Marc S Kraus, Erin J Achilles, Terry Huh, Éva Larouche-Lebel, Laura K Massey, Anna R Gelzer, Mark A Oyama

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Kerry A LoughranDepartment of Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Marc S KrausDepartment of Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8715-5376
Erin J AchillesDepartment of Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Terry HuhDepartment of Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Éva Larouche-LebelDepartment of Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Laura K MasseyDepartment of Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Anna R GelzerDepartment of Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7997-5374
Mark A OyamaDepartment of Clinical Sciences and Advanced Medicine, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5218-9226

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Abstract

backgroundReliability of echocardiographic calculations for stroke volume and mitral regurgitant fraction (RF HYPOTHESIS: Observed intra- and interobserver accuracy and variability in healthy dogs help model CCV for RF ANIMALS: Reliability cohort of 34 healthy dogs; allometric scaling cohort of 99 dogs with heart disease and 25 healthy dogs.

methodsAccuracy, variability, and CCV of 2 observers using geometric and flow-based echocardiography were prospectively compared against a standard of RF

resultsAccuracy of methods to determine RF CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL IMPORTANCE: Echocardiographic volumetric methods used to calculate stroke volume and RF

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Dog DiseasesEchocardiographyMitral Valve InsufficiencyObserver VariationAnimalsDogsFemaleMaleProspective StudiesReproducibility of ResultsStroke Volumedegenerative valve diseaseechocardiographyregurgitant volume

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