Description

Patients with cardiac disease can be a challenge for practicing veterinarians. This is especially true when comorbidities that impact heart function are present. This lecture will provide a practical approach to managing cardiac patients with concurrent renal, endocrine, and other systemic disease including critical illness

Learning Objectives

• Review current understanding of cardiovascular-renal disorders
• Describe the effects of various comorbidities on cardiac status, including kidney disease, systemic hypertension, hyperthyroidism, and critical illness
• Discuss appropriate diagnostic steps for full assessment of comorbidities in dogs and cats with cardiac disease
• Provide updated treatment recommendations when balancing more than one disease in pets with heart disease
• Describe how critical illness impacts cardiac status and how to treat it