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Pulmonary arterial response to Angiostrongylus vasorum in naturally infected dogs: echocardiographic findings in two cases.

Andrea CordaSilvia CartaAntonio VarcasiaClaudia TamponiMaria Antonietta EvangelistiAntonio ScalaMaria Luisa Pinna Parpaglia
Published in: Parasites & vectors (2019)
In the two cases described above, the PH was not associated with IPAVAs. During A. vasorum infection, IPAVAs recruitment mechanism is able to contrast the rise of PAP until a certain level. It probably represents an initial escape mechanism of PH that, over time, exhausts its compensatory capacities allowing PAP to rise and to be detectable on echocardiography.
Keyphrases
  • pulmonary hypertension
  • left ventricular
  • magnetic resonance
  • computed tomography
  • mitral valve
  • left atrial
  • heart failure
  • magnetic resonance imaging
  • atrial fibrillation