Feline Cardiology

- Acknowledgments
- Authors
Section A: Clinical Entities
Chapter 1. Heart Murmurs and Gallop Heart Sounds
Chapter 2. Exercise Intolerance and Syncope
Chapter 3. Pleural Effusion
Chapter 4. Dyspnea and Cough
Chapter 5. Cardiopulmonary Arrest and Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation
Section B: Diagnostic Testing
Chapter 6. Radiography
Chapter 7. Echocardiography
Chapter 8. Cardiac Biomarkers
Chapter 9. Electrocardiography
Section C: Congenital Heart Disease
Chapter 10: Congenital Heart Malformations
Section D: Cardiomyopathies
Chapter 11. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Chapter 12. Restrictive/Unclassified Cardiomyopathy
Chapter 13. Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Chapter 14. Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
Section E: Other Forms of StructuralHeart Disease
Chapter 15. Acquired Valvular Disease
Chapter 16. Cardiac Neoplasia
Chapter 17. Miscellaneous Myocardial and Other Structural Heart Diseases
Section F: Arrhythmias and OtherElectrocardiographic Abnormalities
Chapter 18. Arrhythmias and Other Electrocardiographic Abnormalities
Section G: Congestive Heart Failure
Chapter 19. Congestive Heart Failure
Section H: Arterial Thromboembolism
Chapter 20. Arterial Thromboembolism
Section I: Systemic Hypertension
Chapter 21. Systemic Hypertension
Section J: Pericardial Diseases
Chapter 22. Pericardial Effusion and Other Disorders of the Pericardium
Section K: Heartworm Disease
Chapter 23. Heartworm Disease
Section L: Comorbidities
Chapter 24. Comorbidities: Managing Cats That Have Coexistent Cardiac Disease and Extracardiac Disorders
Section M: Pulmonary Arterial Disorders
Chapter 25. Pulmonary Thromboembolism and Pulmonary Hypertension
Section N: Endocrine DiseasesAffecting the Heart
Chapter 26. Endocrine Diseases Affecting the Heart
Section O: Anesthesia in the Patientwith Cardiac Disease
Chapter 27. Anesthesia in the Patient with Cardiac Disease (Dr. Bruno Pypendop)
Section P: Cardiac Screening Programs
Chapter 28. Cardiac

Etienne Côt&##;, DVM, DACVIM (Cardiology, Small Animal Internal Medicine), is Associate Professor of Companion Animal Medicine at the Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Kristin A. MacDonald, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (Cardiology), is Staff Cardiologist at the VCA-Animal Care Center of Sonoma, California, USA.

Kathryn M. Meurs, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (Cardiology), is Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, North Carolina, USA.

Meg M. Sleeper, VMD, DACVIM (Cardiology), is Associate Professor of Cardiology in the Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA.

A fantastic book. The pictures alone are worth the price of the book. The echocardiograms are all clearly marked so even a novice can quickly see what the issues are which stands out well. The four authors have done an amazing job getting this material together from distant sites and yet have managed a hard task in making the book into a unified and well organized text. Anyone interested in the cat should certainly want this not only on his/her bookshelf but used daily in the clinic alongside the radiographs and the ultrasound machine. The addition of diseases complicating cardiac conditions or simply found in conjunction with heart problems is one that many vets face daily and this should provide them with some great help. Of course the entire section on hypertension is one that fits into the feline profile as an important adjunctive cardiac problem and needed to be as complete and as well written as this one is. (December 2011, Steve Ettinger, DVM, DACVIM, FACC, FAHA)