Thoracotomy and Pericardiotomy for Access to the Heart in Horses: Surgical Procedure and Effects on Anesthetic Variables

Adler, Ditte Marie Top; Hopster, Klaus; Hopster‐Iversen, Charlotte; Fenner, Merle Friederike; Buhl, Rikke; Jacobsen, Stine

doi:10.1016/j.jevs.2020.103315

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“…The horse was placed in right lateral recumbency and equipped with a surface ECG. Rib resection of the 5 th costae was performed [ 42 ] after local analgesia (Carbocain®, 10 mg/ml mepivacaine; Aspen Pharma Trading Limited, Dublin, Ireland), and lastly, the pericardial sac was opened [ 42 ].…”

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Long-Term Training Increases Atrial Fibrillation Sustainability in Standardbred Racehorses

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Saljic

et al. 2023

J. of Cardiovasc. Trans. Res.

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Atrial fibrillation (AF) is more prevalent in athletes, and currently, the mechanisms are not fully understood. Atrial fibrillation inducibility and stability was investigated in trained and untrained Standardbred racehorses. The horses underwent echocardiography for evaluation of atrial size. High-density mapping during AF was performed, and the presence of structural remodeling, as well as the expression of inflammatory and pro-inflammatory markers in the atria, was studied. Atrial fibrillation sustained significantly longer after tachypacing in the trained horses, whereas no difference in AF inducibility was found. The untrained horses displayed a significant difference in the AF complexity when comparing right and left atria, whereas such difference was not observed in the trained animals. No evidence of increased structural remodeling or inflammation could be identified. Left atrial dimensions were not significantly increased. The increased AF sustainability in trained horses was not related to fibrosis or inflammation as seen in other animal exercise models. Graphical abstract

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Long-Term Training Increases Atrial Fibrillation Sustainability in Standardbred Racehorses

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Saljic

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J. of Cardiovasc. Trans. Res.

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“…The horses in group 1 and 3 underwent an open-chest surgical procedure [29] , where the right atrium (RA) was mapped epicardially for the assessment of CV using a 49-electrode high density mapping array (inter-electrode distance of 2.5 mm). Conduction maps were recorded during pacing (2x threshold) at 400, 500 and 1000 ms basic cycle length (BCL).…”

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