Echocardiography in the bovine animal

Authors

  • Frank S. Pipers Department of Veterinary Physiology & Pharmacology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
  • Virginia Reef Department of Veterinary Physiology & Pharmacology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
  • Robert L. Hamlin Department of Veterinary Physiology & Pharmacology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
  • D. Michael Rings Department of Clinical Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21423/bovine-vol1978no13p114-118

Keywords:

diagnostic techniques, heart, ultrasound

Abstract

Echocardiograms were obtrained from 15 standing clinically normal cows using an ultrasonic recording device. The echo beam penetrated the right thoracic wall in the area of the fourth intercostal space with a frequency of 2.25 MH3.  Left ventricular wall thickness measured 2.00 +/- .19 cm while the septal dimension was slightly higher at 2.24 +/- .26 cm. Velocity of circumferential fiber shortening (Vcf), and index of contractility, was .87 +/- .4 m/s and minor axis shortening fraction (% delta D), and indicator of pump frunction, was 43.5 +/- 5.8%.

Cover image of the 13th Volume of the Bovine Practitioner: three images of Maryland--an arial photo of a farm in the green countryside, the city skyline at dusk, and a photo of the USS Constellation sailing in the harbor--with the journal name, AABP logo, and the information for the 11th annual conference.

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Published

2021-01-27

How to Cite

Pipers, F. S., Reef, V., Hamlin, R. L., & Rings, D. M. (2021). Echocardiography in the bovine animal. The Bovine Practitioner, 1978(13), 114–118. https://doi.org/10.21423/bovine-vol1978no13p114-118

Issue

No. 13 (1978 November)

Section

Clinical Reports

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