Duration
01 October 2008 → 30 September 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Agricultural and food sciences
- Veterinary internal medicine and pathophysiology
- Veterinary medical imaging
- Veterinary physiology, pathophysiology and biochemistry
Keywords
stress test
Tissue Doppler Imaging
systolic function
dobutamine
cardiac
Speckle Tracking
left ventricular function
ultrasound
echocardiography
detomidine
horses
Project description
Uding TDI and ST, left ventricular function in healthy horses is quantified and the accuracy of the measurements analyzed. Subsequently, the effect of a pharmacological stimulation or depression of ventricular function, a ventricular premature beat and the presence of mitral regurgitation on the TDI and ST parameters is studied.
