title: Left-sided congestive heart failure in dogs: treatment and monitoring of emergency patients.
abstract: As clinicians' knowledge about congestive heart failure (CHF) improves, so does the ability to treat and monitor patients with this condition. Initiating effective treatment at an early stage of cardiac disease may prevent or delay progression of CHF, thereby enabling the most favorable long-term outcome. This paper focuses on the treatment and monitoring of animals that present with clinical signs related to decompensation despite therapy or to previously undiagnosed CHF.
authors: Wheat Ridge Veterinary Specialists, Wheat Ridge, CO, USA.
authors: Peter
authors: P
authors: Erling
authors: Elisa M
authors: EM
authors: Mazzaferro
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002317:Cardiovascular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D018450:Disease Progression; D004232:Diuretics / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D004285:Dogs; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D010100:Oxygen / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D002317:Cardiovascular Agents; D004232:Diuretics; D010100:Oxygen