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Spectrum of M-Mode Echocardiographic Abnormalities in 75 Cats With Systemic Hypertension

From the Department of Medical Sciences (Henik, Stepien, Bortnowski), School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706; and Mobile Veterinary Diagnostics (Bortnowski), Madison, Wisconsin 53714.

A retrospective study was performed in 75 hypertensive cats to determine the spectrum and frequency of M-mode echocardiographic abnormalities. Results indicated that 21.3% of the cats had M-mode measurements within normal reference ranges. For cats with echocardiographic abnormalities, changes were variable. Thirty-nine percent of hypertensive cats had hypertrophy of the interventricular septum in diastole, and 41.3% had hypertrophy of the left ventricular (LV) posterior wall in diastole. One cat in five had a dilated left atrium, while fractional shortening and LV internal dimension in diastole were normal in 82.7% and 86.7% of the cats, respectively. The marked variability of echocardiographic findings in hypertensive cats made echocardiography an unreliable screening test for hypertension.