Assessment of repeatability, reproducibility, and effect of anesthesia on determination of radial and longitudinal left ventricular velocities via tissue Doppler imaging in dogs.
OBJECTIVE
To determine left ventricular free wall (LVFW) motions and assess their intra- and interday variability via tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) in healthy awake and anesthetized dogs.


METHODS
6 healthy adult Beagles.


METHODS
n the first part of the study, 72 TDI examinations (36 radial and 36 longitudinal) were performed by the same observer on 4 days during a 2-week period in all dogs. In the second part, 3 dogs were anesthetized with isoflurane and vecuronium. Two measurements of each TDI parameter were made on 2 consecutive cardiac cycles when ventilation was transiently stopped. The TDI parameters included maximal systolic, early, and late diastolic LVFW velocities.


RESULTS
The LVFW velocities were significantly higher in the endocardial than in the epicardial layers and also significantly higher in the basal than in the mid-segments in systole, late diastole, and early diastole. The intraday coefficients of variation (CVs) for systole were 16.4% and 22%, and the interday CV values were 11.2% and 16.4% in the endocardial and epicardial layers, respectively. Isoflurane anesthesia significantly improved the intraday CV but induced a decrease in LVFW velocities, except late diastolic in endocardial layers and early diastolic in epicardial layers.


CONCLUSIONS
Left ventricular motion can be adequately quantified in dogs and can provide new noninvasive indices of myocardial function. General anesthesia improved repeatability of the procedure but cannot be recommended because it induces a decrease in myocardial velocities.
Unité de Cardiologie d'Alfort, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d'Alfort, 7 Avenue du General de Gaulle, 94704 Maisons-Alfort cedex, France.
Valerie
V
Chetboul
Nicolas
N
Athanassiadis
Carolina
C
Carlos
Audrey
A
Nicolle
Luca
L
Zilberstein
Jean-Louis
JL
Pouchelon
Herve P
HP
Lefebvre
Didier
D
Concordet
D018685:Anesthetics, Inhalation / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D004285:Dogs / Q000502:physiology*; D018618:Echocardiography, Doppler, Color / Q000662:veterinary; D006321:Heart / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D007530:Isoflurane; D009200:Myocardial Contraction / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014673:Vecuronium Bromide; D016277:Ventricular Function, Left / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology
D018685:Anesthetics, Inhalation; D014673:Vecuronium Bromide; D007530:Isoflurane