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Heartworm

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How can DCM be diagnosed? Echocardiogram can be used to definitively diagnose
Symptoms of DCM Symptoms: Pale gums, exercise intolerance, cough, increased heart rate, pale gums, etc...
Treatment for DCM • No cure, but medications can be given to alleviate lung congestion and improve heart function • Inevitably fatal but dogs that can get treatment earlier into disease have a longer quality of life
What is the most infectious cardiac disease? Heartworms
Are heartworms more common in dogs or cats? More freq. in dogs, but can affect cats. • Cats carry such a small parasite load (1-3 worms vs. up to 250 in dog) that it is often very hard to diagnose
What is the name of the parasite that is heartworm? Dirofilaria immitis
What do heartworms affect? Affects the heart and circulatory system
Lifecycle of a heartworm? Adult worms give birth to microfilaria Microfilaria is ingested by mosquito while feeding and mature in mosquito Mosquito feeds on another dog and larvae go into that dog and flow in blood stream Once ready adult worms will live and reproduce in heart
Vector for heartworms Mosquitoes
Signs you dog in infected with heartworms? Animal will cough and have difficulty breathing once infested (early infection no clinical signs)
How are heartworms diagnosed? Blood test
Can humans get heartworms? No
How do you treat heartworms? Treatment (an arsenical compound) is costly and can be dangerous Therefore PREVENTION is key! – HEARTGARD! Monthly preventative
Where is the US is heartworms most prevalent? South east US due to the hot and humid climate as well as poverty rates.
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