The prognosis for a dog with dilated cardiomyopathy varies — if the dog is
showing symptoms of heart failure the prognosis will be grave.
The following conditions cause your cat to
show symptoms of heart failure (change in blood pressure) and are due to diastolic heart failure (abnormally low blood pressure when the heart is expanded):
Not exact matches
Multiple clinical trials have even
shown that hawthorn can help ease some
of the
symptoms of congestive
heart failure.
Cats with mild HCM may never
show any
symptoms, but more commonly cats with HCM develop one
of three scenarios: congestive
heart failure, clot formation, or sudden death.
This is because the recently published EPIC1 study
showed that early treatment with pimobendan in MVD Stage B2 dogs will delay the development
of symptoms of congestive
heart failure (CHF) by an average
of 15 months.
Although geriatric or sedentary dogs may
show no apparent
symptoms of congestive
heart failure until its advanced stages, habitually active adult dogs usually
show some common signs
of distress.
Dogs in the early stages
of heartworm infection may
show no
symptoms, but eventually they can exhibit signs such as tiring easily, loss
of weight, breathing problems, and eventually liver disease and
heart failure.