Sentences with phrase «enlarged right heart»

This is one of the best ways to assess the severity of heartworm infection, because most dogs with heavy heartworm burdens have enlarged right heart chambers and pulmonary arteries.

Radiographic changes that might occur include an enlarged right heart along with an enlargement of the pulmonary artery.

If severe enough it can eventually lead to an enlarged right heart and regurgitation of blood through the tricupid valve and into the right atrium.

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From enlarged adenoids, the nasal congestion in children causes the right sided heart failure and the chronic sleep apnea with insufficient oxygen levels.

Previous studies have revealed that during a race, marathon runners often show evidence of dangerous changes to the heart, including an enlarged right atrium (the chamber that receives oxygen - starved blood from the body) and elevated levels in the blood of enzymes that signal heart damage.

X-rays diagnose heartworm disease by revealing an unusually large heart that is expanded on the right side — it is enlarged because the chamber has adapted to holding too much blood.

They took an x-ray and told me his heart was enlarged and sent us right down to the University of Minnesota Vet Hospital.

This, I had learned about with a dog who was sent to me suffering from congestive heart failure due to Cardiomopathy (enlarged heart - right side not functioning at all) and stage 4 / strong Lyme disease.

Early in the disease the left side of the heart may be more enlarged than the right but with time both the left and right side of the heart enlarge.

In a similar fashion to the changes to the left atrium with certain left - sided heart diseases, diseases that primarily affect the right side of the heart (e.g. primary pulmonary hypertension, heartworm disease, tricuspid valve dysplasia, pulmonic stenosis) may reduce forward flow of blood into the pulmonary circulation and, again depending on severity, may lead to a build - up of volume and / or pressure within the right atrium which will also try to enlarge to compensate.

His heart was quite enlarged, he also had fluid on the right side of it.

Right side valvular disease arises when blood has collected in the vena cava and jugular vein, which causes the heart to pump faster and work harder; this eventually causes the heart to enlarge, forcing the heart's internal chamber capacity to decrease, which means less blood can be pumped out.