Condition journey
Heart Health
Heart conditions in dogs and cats — from murmurs and valve disease to heart failure.
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Your heart health care team
These are the practitioners this condition can call for, from your everyday vet to specialists and therapists. Enter your postcode to see who's near you at each step.
- Your vet (primary care)
Veterinary cardiologist ·Referral hospital
Understanding heart health
Reading from PetsLikeMineMitral Valve Disease
- Understanding the ACVIM Stages of Mitral Valve Disease (A to D) 10 min
- When Mitral Valve Disease Becomes Heart Failure (Stage C) 9 min
- Living With a Dog in the Pre-clinical Stage: Monitoring and Rechecks 10 min
- Mitral Valve Disease: Prognosis, and What the Numbers Really Mean 10 min
- Mitral Valve Repair Surgery: Is It an Option for My Dog? 9 min
- Mitral Valve Disease Explained: The Leaky Valve Behind Most Canine Heart Murmurs 11 min
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM)
- Screening and Genetics: Maine Coons, Ragdolls and the proBNP Test 11 min
- HCM and Anaesthesia: Why Screening Before a Routine Op Matters 12 min
- Preventing Clots: Clopidogrel and the FATCAT Evidence 11 min
- When a Cat With HCM Goes Into Heart Failure 10 min
- Feline HCM: Prognosis, From Incidental Murmur to Managed Disease 10 min
- Living With a Cat With HCM: Monitoring, Stress and Rechecks 11 min
- Saddle Thrombus: The Sudden Clot Every HCM Owner Should Know 11 min
- Feline HCM Explained: The Thickened Heart, and Why Cats Hide It 10 min
Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM)
- When DCM Becomes Heart Failure 11 min
- DCM Prognosis, and Why Catching It Early Changes the Story 10 min
- Screening at-risk breeds for DCM: Holters, echo and why catching it early matters 10 min
- Dobermans and Sudden Death: Arrhythmias, Monitoring, and What Can Be Done 10 min
- Living With a DCM Dog: Diet Correction, Exercise and Monitoring 10 min
- Dilated cardiomyopathy explained: what DCM is, which dogs get it, and why it stays silent for so long 13 min
- The Grain-Free Question: Diet-Associated DCM, Explained Fairly 10 min
Congestive Heart Failure
- Recognising a Heart Failure Crisis: The Emergency Signs and Your Action Plan 11 min
- The Heart Failure Medication Toolkit: Diuretics, Pimobendan and the Rest 10 min
- Quality of Life with Heart Failure: Knowing When, and Saying Goodbye with Support 10 min
- A Low-Sodium Diet for Heart Failure: What to Feed and What to Avoid 11 min
- Managing Furosemide at Home: Dosing, Dehydration and the Rescue Protocol 11 min
- When Heart Failure Stops Responding: Advanced Options and Comfort 10 min
- Congestive Heart Failure Explained: What It Is, What "Congestive" Means, and What You Can Do 12 min
More guides
- Diet and the Heart: Sodium, Taurine and the Supplements Worth It 11 min
- Is It a Heart Cough or an Airway Cough? 11 min
- Heart Medications Explained: What Each Drug Actually Does 9 min
- "The Vet Heard a Murmur": What It Means and What It Doesn't 12 min
- Heart Tests Explained: X-ray, Echo, ECG, Blood Pressure and proBNP 12 min
- How Your Pet's Heart Works, and What Can Go Wrong 11 min
- Working With a Veterinary Cardiologist: Referral, Costs and What to Expect 10 min
- The Resting Respiratory Rate: The Most Useful Heart-Monitoring Skill You Can Learn at Home 10 min