INTAS POLIVET

Open Access
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 2

Cardiomegaly in a Spitz and its Therapeutic management

  • Author:
  • Amiya K. Rautray1, R.C. Patra1, K.K. Sardar2
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 276 to 277

1Regional Research and Technology Transfer Station, Bhawanipatna

2Department of Pharmacology

Department of Veterinary Medicine, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar751 003 (Orissa)

Online published on 24 January, 2012.

Abstract

Enlargement of heart is mostly a compensatory mechanism to increase cardiac output. A female spitz aged 14 yrs with complaint of continuous coughing was examined by C-ARM. There was increased size of the heart with reduced lungs area. Treatment with enalapril maleate @ 2.5 mg twice daily and diethyl carbamazine@6.6 mg/kg body weight for 21 days and ivermectin@0.2 mg/kg bd wt for three consecutive weeks improved the cardiac health and there was no coughing 18 days post-treatment and C-ARM examination on 19th days showed reduction in heart size.

Keywords

Cardiomegaly, dog, enalapril maleate, heart