Survival time and clinical outcome of cats diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Chang, Xuan Wu (2020) Survival time and clinical outcome of cats diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. [Project Paper] (Submitted)

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Abstract

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common acquired heart disease and the survivability of cats diagnosed with HCM is affected by several factors. This retrospective study conducted in University Veterinary Hospital, UPM between 2013-2019 investigated the common cause of death and survival time of cats with HCM based on stage, treatment compliance and presence of concurrent disease. Using the database, 184 cats diagnosed with HCM with complete patient medical record were included in this study. However, 37 cats’ health status (dead/alive) could not be determined were excluded for the survival analysis. From this study, 69% cats did not survive (n=101/147) and the common cause of death was due to cardiovascular 67% (n=68/101), mainly congestive heart failure (CHF) followed by atrial thromboembolism (ATE) and sudden death (SD). The median survival time of HCM cats in this study was 608 days. There was significant difference (p=0.001) of survivability of HCM cats between stages. The median survival time of HCM cats (Stage B) were 1518 days, the longest compare to HCM with CHF or ATE (Stage C) with median survival time of 1253 days and HCM with refractory CHF (Stage D) with median survival time of 30 days which was the shortest. However, there were no significant different in median survival time of HCM cats with/without owner’s compliance to treatment (p=0.428) and concurrent disease (p=0.057), respectively. Therefore, cats diagnosed with HCM may likely succumb to cardiovascular death and the survivability was affected by stage (time of diagnose) but did not affected much by treatment compliance and presence of concurrent disease.

Item Type:	Project Paper
Faculty:	Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Depositing User:	Ms. Nordeena Abdul Aziz
Date Deposited:	19 Oct 2023 08:12
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2023 08:12
URI:	http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/1499

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