Asian Journal of Animal Sciences1819-1878xxxx-xxxxxAsian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/ajas.2014.34.37GugjooM.B. SaxenaA.C. HoqueM. MahendranK. ZamaM.M.S. 1201481The present study was aimed to report the diagnostic features of Pericardial
effusion (PE), observed in commonly employed cardiac diagnostic modalities viz.,
radiography, electrocardiography and echocardiography. A 9-year-old, female
Labrador Retriever dog (24 kg) was brought to the Referral Veterinary Polyclinic,
Indian Veterinary Research Institute-Izatnagar with the complaint of exercise
intolerance, listlessness, lethargy, generalized weakness and inappetence. Physical
examination revealed tachypnoea, distended abdomen and on auscultation muffled
heart sounds were observed. Based on physical examination findings, animal was
put on other cardiac diagnostic techniques to arrive at final diagnosis. Diagnostic
features characteristic to pericardial effusion, an abnormal accumulation of
fluid inside the pericardium, were observed. Globoid heart appearance and large
Vertebral Heart Score (VHS) was observed on lateral thoracic radiograph. Electrocardiography
(Lead II) revealed decreased R wave amplitude (decreased left ventricular contraction).
On echocardiographic examination an echo free space between epicardium and pericardium
was observed. All these findings were indicative of pericardial effusion, however,
without an exact aetiology. This article reports the successful diagnosis of
pericardial effusion in Labrador Retriever. However, to confirm the aetiology
other diagnostic tests like haematology, pericardial fluid analysis and histopathology
need to done.]]>Badiger, S., P.T. Akkasaliga and M.S. Biradar,201213741Campbell, A.,200627372377Cobb, M.A. and S.E. Brownlie,199233309316Dunning, D.,20022002pp: 219-223pp: 219-223Gugjoo, M.B., M. Hoque, A.C. Saxena and M.M.S. Zama,201417689695Gugjoo, M.B., M. Hoque, M.M.S. Zama, A.C. Saxena, A.M. Pawde, M.M. Ansari and S.A. Bhat,2013907173Gugjoo, M.B., A.C. Saxena, M. Hoque, K. Mahendran and M.M.S. Zama,201483437Johnson, M.S., M. Martin, S. Binns and M.J. Day,200445546552Karatay, C.M., C.T. Fruehan, G.W. Lighty, R.M. Spear and H. Smulyan,19932710331038Miller, M.W. and D.D. Sisson,20002000pp: 923-936pp: 923-936Rokey, R., G.W. Vick, R. Bolli and E.D. Lewandowski,19911211611169Sanflippo, A.J. and A.E. Weyman,19941994pp: 1102-1134pp: 1102-1134Sisson, D. and W.P. Thomas,19991999pp: 679-701pp: 679-701Smith, F.W.K. and J.E. Rush,19991999pp: 772-777pp: 772-777Stepien, R.L., N.T. Whitley and R.R. Dubielzig,200041342347Tobias, A.H. and E.A. McNiel,20072007pp: 200-214pp: 200-214