Aortic valve insufficiency in a one-year-old colt. Academic Article

abstract

• Aortic insufficiency was suspected in a thin 1-year-old colt with a grade IV/V decrescendo holodiastolic murmur and a bounding arterial pulse. Echocardiographic findings (diastolic fluttering of the septal leaflet of the mitral valve, left ventricular volume overload, and incomplete aortic valve closure) were diagnostic for aortic valve insufficiency. Moderately thick fibrotic aortic valve leaflets were found at necropsy. Fenestrations were found in the aortic and pulmonic valve cusps. Congenital valvular disease may have led to aortic valvular insufficiency in this horse.

authors

• Eades, Erma

published proceedings

• J Am Vet Med Assoc

author list (cited authors)

• Clark, E. S., Reef, V. B., Sweeney, C. R., & Lichtensteiger, C.

citation count

• 13

complete list of authors

• Clark, ES||Reef, VB||Sweeney, CR||Lichtensteiger, C

publication date

• October 1987

published in

• Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Aortic Valve Insufficiency
• Echocardiography
• Horse Diseases
• Horses
• Male

PubMed Central ID

• 3679975

start page

• 841

end page

• 844

volume

• 191

issue

• 7