Virtual: Recommended Approach To Older Dogs With Heart Murmurs When Echocardiography Is Not an Option

This session is livestreamed from VMX Orlando. This session will focus on helping the primary care clinician determine the clinical relevance of a heart murmur in older dogs with presumed myxomatous (degenerative) mitral valve disease. It will discuss treatment recommendations for asymptomatic dogs (i.e., starting a cardiac medication such as pimobendan) based on thoracic radiographic findings, an NT-proBNP, or both. This session will also discuss when starting furosemide is most appropriate for dogs with clinical signs such as cough. Lastly, anesthetic risk in these patients will be discussed from a cardiologist’s perspective. Presented by: Boehringer Ingelheim