Recent Progress in Large Animal Cardiology and Electrocardiography
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Equids".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2024) | Viewed by 3690
Special Issue Editors
Interests: exercise physiology; sports medicine; poor performance; cardiorespiratory; cardiology; electrocardiography
Interests: cardiology; exercise; atrial fibrillation; sudden cardiac death; electrocardiography; echocardiography
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Equine cardiology is a rapidly expanding discipline encompassing companion and leisure horses, performance horses and racehorses competing in the fields of endurance, harness, flat and jumps racing. The horse also serves as a natural research model for the athlete’s heart. Techniques for echocardiographic strain imaging, electrocardiographic mapping and vectorcardiography, and histopathological analysis are being translated from human medicine to the horse. In addition, the increasing use of new technologies such as wearable and portable electrocardiography and echocardiography devices enables data collection in the field, from large cohorts of horses. Based on these advancements, a greater understanding of cardiac electrical, structural and functional remodeling in health and disease is currently underway.
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, which aims to be a state-of-the-art collection of papers exemplifying recent leaps in our understanding of equine cardiology.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following: the clinical and research-based use of new technologies and techniques for electrocardiography and echocardiography, and new diagnostic methods and treatments for equine cardiac disease. It is intended that the published articles will enhance our current understanding of the identification, interpretation and management of equine cardiac disorders.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Samantha H. Franklin
Dr. Laura C. Nath
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cardiology
- heart
- arrhythmia
- atrial fibrillation
- electrocardiography
- echocardiography
- exercise
- disease
- athlete
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