A Di Loria, C Ferravante, Y D'Agostino, G Giurato, M Tursi, E Grego, M Perego, A Weisz, P Ciaramella, R Santilli
INTRODUCTION: The employment of advanced molecular biology technologies has expanded the diagnostic investigation of cardiomyopathies in dogs; these technologies have predominantly been performed on postmortem samples, although the recent use of endomyocardial biopsy in living dogs has enabled a better premortem diagnostic approach to study the myocardial injury. ANIMALS, MATERIALS, AND METHODS: Endomyocardial biopsies were collected in nine dogs with a dilated cardiomyopathy phenotype (DCM-p) and congestive heart failure and submitted to histologic examination, next-generation sequencing (NGS), and polymerase chain reaction analysis...
February 22, 2024: Journal of Veterinary Cardiology: the Official Journal of the European Society of Veterinary Cardiology