MU VHC Cardiology Service

07/09/2023

Interesting case report from Dr. Elizabeth Martin and the MU Cardiology Service regarding balloon angioplasty and stenting for Budd-Chairi like syndrome and its free to download for the next 50 days by clicking the link below:

A 6-year-old female spayed Chihuahua mix presented with chronic recurrent ascites. Computed tomographic angiography revealed an isolated stenosis of t…

01/20/2022

The VHC Cardiology Service visited the Dickerson Park Zoo today to screen patients, including Scotty, a colobus monkey, for heart disease.

06/16/2021

Another paper from the MU Cardiology service and Canine Genetics Laboratory and its free to download until August 5, 2021 at https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1dFPv6GFMNzrzq

The study objectives were to determine the prevalence and geographic distribution of a dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM)-associated RNA-binding motif prote…

06/09/2021

Congrats to MU cardiology resident Dr. Logan Funk on his recently published paper describing balloon valvuloplasty in alpacas with pulmonic stenosis. Check out the link below to access the article.

Two juvenile alpacas, 1 male and 1 female, were presented for evaluation of grade V/VI bilateral basilar systolic heart murmurs. Both animals were ultimately diagnosed with severe valvular pulmonic s...

08/24/2020

Need any continuing education? The MU cardiology faculty have partnered with DVM 360 to provide 6 hours of high quality online CE. Check it out at fetchdvm360.com

02/21/2020

Drum visited the Veterinary Health Center earlier this week for his six-month check-up. Our Cardiology Service is managing this good boy for nutritionally mediated dilated cardiomyopathy. He is doing great and stopped long enough to pose for a photo with his team of caregivers, from left: JaeYoung Kim, CVM student; Logan Funk, DVM, cardiology resident; Alyssa Langsdorf, RVT, cardiology technician; Kelly Wiggen, DVM, cardiology resident; and Amanda Alviso, cardiology assistant.

07/27/2019

MU College of Veterinary Medicine helps athletic horse recover from irregular heartbeat

06/14/2019

The MU Cardiology team has been busy with two abstracts presented at the recent ACVIM Forum in Phoenix and two co-authored manuscripts recently published. Congrats to Drs. Lyndsay Kong and Kelly Wiggen and all those involved with these projects!

06/07/2019

Congratulations to Molly Ross, a recent graduate of the College of Veterinary Medicine, who won best overall presentation at the annual CVM research day for her project with the cardiology service entitled “Prevalence of the RBM20 mutation in genotyped dogs”. Molly will be doing a rotating internship this next year and she has a particular interest on cardiology. Congrats Molly!

05/30/2018

Topher had a lot of heart. The 3-month-old Labrador-pit bull puppy had been consigned to oblivion, abandoned in a dumpster in southwest Missouri. He managed to stay alive long enough to come under …

04/03/2017

Ask your veterinarian about affordable heartworm preventative for your dog or cat

April is Heartworm Awareness Month! Use this link to our website for all kinds of tools, pictures, posters and more! https://www.heartwormsociety.org