Dogs with heart disease cough for many reasons.
Not exact matches
In the animal
with a
cough or any other breathing problem, the veterinarian will use a number of tools to determine if the cause is
heart disease, lung
disease (such as collapsing trachea) or both (which is often the case in older
dogs).
Dogs and cats
with heart disease can develop
heart failure, which results in rapid or labored breathing,
cough, fainting, or loss of appetite.
Unlike humans and
dogs with heart disease, cats rarely
cough if they have
heart disease.
Most
heart problems are diagnosed in younger
dogs with signs of exercise intolerance and
coughing, though
heart disease is certainly not the only cause of those signs.
Therefore, the cause of a
cough in a
dog with chronic respiratory
disease that also has a
heart murmur isn't always easy to determine.
If, however, the murmur is associated
with structural
heart disease, your
dog may display signs of congestive
heart failure such as
coughing, weakness, or exercise intolerance.»
Unlike in the
dog,
coughing usually is not a sign of
heart disease in cats but is is more often associated
with chronic bronchitis (asthma) or other lung
diseases.
Healthy
dogs with minimal signs as above, occasional
coughing, fatigue only
with exercise but
with radiographs that show definite evidence of
heart disease.
Clinically, a
dog with heart disease will show symptoms such as lethargy,
cough, irregular respiration, intolerance to exercise, reluctance to eat and fainting.