title: Taurine for the Treatment of Canine Dilated Cardiomyopathy: A Veterinarian's Personal Experience.
abstract: In dogs, dilated cardiomyopathy is a common cardiac disease that is associated with treatment failure, a progressively compromised quality of life, and eventual death from heart failure. Cardiomyopathy in companion animals is treated with a variety of drugs manufactured for the management of cardiac dyfunction in humans, but often those agents do not produce a significantly beneficial response in veterinary patients. In this article, Lara Ivan, DVM, presents her personal experience with the use of a compounded form of the amino acid taurine in the treatment of her Doberman pinscher, whose dilated cardiomyopathy was characteristically sudden in onset. Robert Borger, RPh, a specialist in veterinary compounding, comments on the preparation of taurine for use in dogs with dilated cardiomyopathy.
authors: St.Louis, Missouri.
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