marți, 15 ianuarie 2013

CARDIOQUIZZ - DIROFILARIA IMMITIS IN SMALL DOGS?














DIROFILARIA IMMITIS IS ALL THE TIME CONSIDERED AS A LARGE BREED DISEASE IN DOGS, BUT SOMETIME IT'S BETTER TO SEARCH FOR IT EVEN IN SMALL BREED. Unfortunately, sometime it may be too late for your dog.....

        The pictures above represent cardiac ultrasound ante-mortem/necropsy from a male dog, small  breed (peckinese 5 kg ) and you can see the presence of adult worms in the right ventricle, surrounding the tricuspid valve.