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Cats Heart and Circulatory System Articles
Your cat heart and circulatory system is made up of arteries, capillaries, and veins. These crucial parts of the cats system help to control the amount of blood that circulates through the system. To keep your cat’s heart and circulatory system healthy, exercise and a healthy diet are the best defenses against common heart and circulatory system conditions such as heartworms, heart attacks, and aoritic stenosis. There are a number of effective treatments for cat heart conditions that can be administered by your veterinarian. In some cases, medication may be enough to treat a mild heart condition while surgery may be required in other more serious cases. Continue reading to learn more about the cat heart and circulatory system.
- What is a Normal Kitten Heart Rate?
The kitten heart beats faster than a mature cat's heart. Detecting an unusually high or low heart rate can help identifying possible heart conditions or health issues.
- Understanding Feline Infectious Anemia
There are a number of infectious organisms that cause feline anemia or the lack of red blood cells; however, the parasitic disease itself has been renamed "feline hemotropic mycoplasmosis", which literally means a cat blood infection of mycoplasma organisms
- Understanding Feline Cardiomyopathy
Feline cardiomyopathy also known as feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (hcm) is a disease that affects the heart muscle. The walls of the heart...
- Treatment Considerations for Feline Cardiomyopathy
Feline cardiomyopathy is a cat heart disease, often fatal, in which the heart walls change shape by stretching or thickening, making it difficult for the heart to work properly.
- Preventing Heartworm in Cats
An infestation of a single heartworm in cats can be very serious. Symptoms of cat heart problems caused by heartworms may be indistinguishable from acute respiratory disease.
- Managing Feline Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy With Inderal
Feline hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHC) is a potentially fatal disease, but it can be managed with Inderal. The condition is one of the most common heart...
- Managing Congestive Heart Failure in Cats with Lasix
Lasix, or furomeside, is a medication used to treat congestive heart failure in cats. It acts as a diuretic and can also be used to treat diseases of the kidneys...
- Heartworm Disease in Cats
It might be a good idea to consider retesting for heartworms. It would not be unusual for a cat to have a single heartworm and the symptoms you have seen would be consistent with death of a heartworm.
- Heart Murmur in Cats
Many of the cats that do have heart murmurs do not experience any problems relating to the murmur. However, there can be serious problems when a murmur is present, so the best approach is to get an ultrasound exam of the heart when it is possible to do so.
- Heart - Cardiomyopathy
Our cat runs around the house, she pants and her tongue hangs out. She was showing difficulty breathing and in the past was diagnosed as having a heart murmur. We were told she had an inflamed heart and would need an ultrasound.
- Feline CHF: Understanding Cat Heart Failure
Cat heart failure occurs when a cat's heart is unable to pump adequate blood to its body. A failing heart may lead to extreme fatigue, excess fluid retention in various body...
- Feline Cardiomyopathy Explained
The term "cardiomyopathy" refers to a disease of the heart. Feline cardiomyopathy occurs when the walls of the cat's heart muscle either get way too thick due to uncontrolled...
- Cardiovascular Disorders of Cats
Heart failure, usually from cardiomyopathy in cats, is one cause of changes in the fluid pressures. As the heart function decreases blood accumulates in the lungs because it isn't being pumped out of them. This raises the blood pressure in the pulmonary capillaries which normally drain the fluid from the visceral pleura.
- Cardiomyopathy
Cardiomyopathy is an alteration in the function of the heart muscle. It can occur for several reasons in cats and it can take several forms.
- An Overview of Common Cat Heart Diseases
Cat heart disease, or cardiomyopathy, encompasses a range of different disorders that can affect your cat's heart muscle. Some cats never display any symptoms of heart disease; others suffer feline heart failure and death.
- 12 Common Symptoms of Feline Heartworm Disease
Feline heartworm disease is caused by parasites found in cats, that cause them severe lung and heart injury and inflammation. Cats with strong immune systems that build resistance to heartworms are able to combat heartworm infection without medical intervention.
- 10 Causes of Feline Heart Murmur
Feline heart murmurs are unusual sounds the blood makes when leaving or moving through the heart. A cat heart murmur is rated from Grade 1 through Grade 6, with Grade 6 being the most severe.
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