Heart to spine measurements to detect left atrial enlargement in dogs with mitral insufficiency
dc.contributor.author | Sánchez Salguero, Xavier | |
dc.contributor.author | Prandi, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Llabrés-Díaz, Francisco | |
dc.contributor.author | Garcia Manzanilla, Edgar | |
dc.contributor.author | Badiella, Llorenç | |
dc.contributor.author | Bussadori, Claudio | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-14T12:42:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-12-14T12:42:49Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-11-20 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Sánchez Salguero, X., Prandi, D., Llabrés-Díaz, F. et al. Heart to spine measurements to detect left atrial enlargement in dogs with mitral insufficiency. Ir Vet J 72, 14 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13620-019-0152-6 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2046-0481 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11019/2699 | |
dc.description | peer-reviewed | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Background: Radiography is useful to determine left atrial (LA) size when echocardiography is not available. Recently, the authors have described Radiographic Left Atrial Dimension (RLAD) as a new radiographic measurement to assess LA size. The objective of this study was to assess the clinical usefulness of 2 new radiographic measurements to detect and quantify left atrial enlargement (LAE) compared to RLAD and using left atrium to aortic root (LA/Ao) ratio as gold standard. These new measurements, bronchus-to-spine (Br-Spine) and RLAD-to-spine (RLAD-Spine) may be more precise in cases were LA boundaries are not well defined. Fifty dogs, 25 with and 25 without LAE were recruited. Reference LA/Ao ratio was assessed by 2D echocardiography and LAE was considered if LA/Ao > 1.6. Br-spine was measured as a straight vertical line from the main stem bronchus to the ventral border of the vertebra situated immediately dorsal to the heart base. RLAD-Spine was measured from RLAD endpoint perpendicularly to spine. The correlation of RLAD, Br-Spine and RLAD-Spine methods with LA/Ao and their sensitivity and specificity for detecting LAE were calculated. Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) curves were used to estimate the optimal cut-off for each method. Results: Correlations between Br-Spine, RLAD-Spine, RLAD and LA/Ao ratio were − 0.66, − 0.76 and 0.89 respectively (P < 0.001). Sensitivity at the optimal cut-off values for detecting LAE were 32.0, 64.0 and 96.0%, respectively. Specificity was 96.0% in all cases. Conclusion: Br-Spine and RLAD-Spine were less sensitive radiographic measurements than RLAD in detecting LAE in dogs. Both Br-Spine and RLAD-Spine may not be good alternatives to RLAD. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Irish Veterinary Journal;72 | |
dc.rights | Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ | * |
dc.subject | Dog | en_US |
dc.subject | Left atrial size | en_US |
dc.subject | Mitral valve disease | en_US |
dc.subject | Radiographic measurement | en_US |
dc.subject | RLAD | en_US |
dc.title | Heart to spine measurements to detect left atrial enlargement in dogs with mitral insufficiency | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13620-019-0152-6 | |
dc.source.volume | 72 | |
dc.source.issue | 1 | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-12-14T12:42:49Z |
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