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Read the latest news and insights written by our trained experts in sonography and echocardiography.

3 useful colour views for interrogating perimembranous VSDs
A kitten or puppy with a loud murmur always raises suspicion of a restrictive ventricular septal defect (VSD). ‘Restrictive’ sounds bad, but it’s actually the best case scenario for a

Performing LV dimension measurements & normal values for dogs and cats
Performing LV dimension and wall thickness measurements on dogs and cats should be straightforward, but unfortunately for us, it is anything but. The heterogeneity of measurement techniques, modalities (B-mode or

A summary of November’s small animal echocardiography course
This week, we enjoyed another fantastic hands-on echocardiography workshop for veterinarians and RVNs in Bromley, led by Professor Luis Fuentes and Catherine Stowell. The main goals of the day were
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