Multiple congenital heart anomalies in five Arabian foals

J Am Vet Med Assoc. 1982 Oct 1;181(7):684-9.

Abstract

Five Arabian or half-Arabian foals with suspected multiple cardiac anomalies were examined. Various combinations of clinical examination, electrocardiography, angiocardiography, cardiac catheterization, blood gas analysis, radiography, and echocardiography resulted in clinical data that allowed accurate antemortem diagnoses to be made. In 4 cases, the clinical diagnosis was substantiated by postmortem findings. The confirmed diagnoses were: pseudotruncus arteriosus, a combination of patent ductus arteriosus, pulmonic stenosis, and tricuspid stenosis, pentalogy of Fallot, and tricuspid atresia. The surviving horse was believed to have an interventricular septal defect and patent ductus arteriosus, or a persistent truncus arteriosus.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abnormalities, Multiple / diagnosis
  • Abnormalities, Multiple / veterinary*
  • Animals
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Ductus Arteriosus, Patent / diagnosis
  • Ductus Arteriosus, Patent / veterinary
  • Female
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / diagnosis
  • Heart Defects, Congenital / veterinary*
  • Heart Septal Defects / diagnosis
  • Heart Septal Defects / veterinary
  • Horse Diseases / congenital*
  • Horse Diseases / diagnosis
  • Horse Diseases / etiology
  • Horses
  • Male