RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY AND SECONDARY CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE IN A MCDOWELL'S CARPET PYTHON (MORELIA SPILOTA MCDOWELLI)

Lionel Schilliger; Valérie Chetboul; Cécile Damoiseaux; Alexandra Nicolier

doi:10.1638/2016-0076.1

1 December 2016 RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY AND SECONDARY CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE IN A MCDOWELL'S CARPET PYTHON (MORELIA SPILOTA MCDOWELLI)

Lionel Schilliger, Valérie Chetboul, Cécile Damoiseaux, Alexandra Nicolier

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J. of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 47(4):1101-1104 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1638/2016-0076.1

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Echocardiography is an established and noninvasive diagnostic tool used in herpetologic cardiology. Various cardiac lesions have been previously described in reptiles with the exception of restrictive cardiomyopathy. In this case report, restrictive cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure associated with left atrial and sinus venosus dilation were diagnosed in a 2-yr-old captive lethargic McDowell's carpet python (Morelia spilota mcdowelli), based on echocardiographic, Doppler, and histopathologic examinations. This cardiomyopathy was also associated with thrombosis within the sinus venosus.

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Lionel Schilliger, Valérie Chetboul, Cécile Damoiseaux, and Alexandra Nicolier "RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY AND SECONDARY CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE IN A MCDOWELL'S CARPET PYTHON (MORELIA SPILOTA MCDOWELLI)," Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 47(4), 1101-1104, (1 December 2016). https://doi.org/10.1638/2016-0076.1

Received: 5 April 2016; Published: 1 December 2016

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