Mitral valve disease is most commonly a disease of aging in dogs, with the valve gradually deteriorating over time. The exact cause of this degeneration is not entirely understood, but genetics ...

A common heart condition that plagues small dogs can be picked up by AI, experts have found. Mitral valve disease regularly ...

a kennel full of healthy and happy dogs that had had mitral-valve replacements. He had patients in the hospital in the terminal stages of heart failure with mitral-valve disease and urged us to ...

All were considered to have rheumatic valvular disease except for 1 patient with mitral regurgitation secondary to ruptured chordae tendinae. Aortic-valve disease severe enough to require ...