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Yep. You're right. It depends on the animal. It's different from invertebrates all the way to fish. Actually, AKA_Monet, heart infection can infect pigs as well as other animals, but heart disease with subsequent heart failure is even more frequent in small animal medicine. All it takes is a faulty heart to cause high blood pressure, and fluid build up within the abdomen and/or the lungs. I mean, of course that depends on which side of the heart is involved. The crazy thing about heart disease in most animals, is if the latter structures become waterlogged, oxygen exchange is reduced even further. It can be just about anything. Different diseases involving the heart valves or heart muscle can lead to heart failure too.
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You know that Dr. Fishbein
developed the
Danio renio stem cell heart cell regeneration... Pretty interesting stuff. And their hears are like 3 small-large chambers...
I forgot about the pig infections. Should know that because my husband rattles that crap off all the time... LOL.
My last psychotic professor would have to disagree with you on that, he thinks it is all vessel wall status tied up with the kidneys and the adrenals (subrenals)... The heart just is a pump... LOL... Do NOT deal with his logic anymore.
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I read where you mentioned heartworms. Actually, by far the most common type of heart disease seen in dogs, aside from that caused by heartworms, is mital insufficiency, I think (correct me if I'm wrong) involves the heart valve separating the left atrium from the left ventricle. To my understanding, if this valve becomes diseased and fails to close properly when it's supposed to, blood is actually allowed to flow back into the left atrium when the left ventricle contracts.
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Is that all breeds of dogs? Or one breed over another? Like you wouldn't see it in a mutt, but you would with particular breeds, like Great Danes, some Laboradors, and maybe one of those "yip yip" dogs... But in ALL dogs?
Also, I forgot what it's call, but all the organs are on the "wrong side"... A few dogs show that kind of gross genetic rearrangement.
lol. I'm not surprised. We get some of the most hilarious calls. We laugh and talk about some of them for months.
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Most of the other stuff sounds like you learning many things and memorizing what you need to know!!! Are you ready for licensure? Good for you though!!!
I've been fighting with little popcorn mice that jump so high right into a plastic bag... And actually, I am rather depressed due to the stuff I had to do to some of them... We are talking close to 50 cages and 100 odd mice...
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