title: Echocardiography and electrocardiography as means to evaluate potential performance in horses.
abstract: Prediction of potential performance is one of the goals of exercise physiology investigations. When Selecting a horse for competition, one of the main objectives is to choose the one that predictably will reveal a competitive aptitude above the average. The horses used in this study underwent a two-dimensional echocardiography study and a conventional 3 leads electrocardiogram. The results show that heart score is not an appropriate index to evaluate the heart size in the horse. On the other hand, there are currently more suitable and accurate procedures such as echocardiography that allow performing a clear anatomical evaluation and accurate measurement in order to calculate LVMM and to predict performance.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Medicina, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, 1427-Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lightowler
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Piccione
authors.forename: Elisabetta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Giudice
authors.forename: Gerardo Romei
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: del Olmo
authors.forename: Maria Laura
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Cattaneo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000662:veterinary*; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000662:veterinary*; D005260:Female; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology*; D006736:Horses / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D010805:Physical Conditioning, Animal; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests