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Dr. Lake-Bakaar feeding Mickey who was hospitalized for pancreatitis. Mickey didn’t have much of an appetite, so this was a big moment!

Little Maxwell was getting tired more quickly than his siblings and was found to have a loud heart murmur during his 3-week checkup, so he came into our cardiologist to see if his heart was functioning properly. Although puppies can grow out of soft heart murmurs, a loud heart murmur is usually a sign of congenital heart disease and should be evaluated by a cardiologist as soon as possible. An echocardiogram found a small defect in his heart between his two ventricles (pumping chambers) called a Ventricular Septal Defect but there currently isn’t any overload to the heart. We’ll see Maxwell again when he’s fully grown!

Frank was such a sweetie and gave snuggles to the entire team!!

Moshi’s parents were worried about her because she had been having soft stool for the past week and just developed bloody diarrhea, so they brought her into our ER. We took a parvo test right away to make sure she didn’t have a serious virus, which was luckily negative.

The March Patient of the Month is Chai (who has the honor of being our first Cat featured)! He’s had quite a journey since we saw him at the end of February, with a few overnight visits and many checkups. He’s quickly become a regular at EVS and a patient we love seeing every time.

We’re already missing our snuggles with this little fluff that went home yesterday!

Anny was transferred to our cardiologist to evaluate a cough, worsening respiratory effort, and episodes of collapsing. After an echocardiogram, Anny was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension. Pulmonary hypertension describes elevated arterial pressure within the blood vessels connecting the heart and lungs, which in Anny’s case resulted in her collapsing. Pulmonary hypertension is most common in smaller, middle-aged to older dogs, and is also more common at high altitude. Anny was hospitalized for 24 hours to receive oxygen, medications, and be monitored. She didn’t have any more episodes of collapsing overnight and was able to go home with her family.

Leila came in for her recheck exam following recent hospitalization for heart failure likely caused by grain free diet (Earthborn) and brought the pack (Bentley and TeAti) to get a listen to their hearts!

Anja came into our cardiologist to evaluate a heart murmur. An echocardiogram revealed that she has mild heart disease and progression to severe disease is unlikely. We’ll see Anja again when she’s fully grown (she’s only 15 weeks!) to recheck her heart.

PeeWee was referred to our cardiologist for evaluation of labored breathing and a heart murmur. An echocardiogram found that he had Mitral valve degeneration, the most common acquired heart disease in small breed dogs which typically progresses slowly over time. In PeeWee’s case, this also resulted in Congestive Heart Failure. He was hospitalized overnight for treatment and monitoring, his breathing normalized, and he was able to go home the next afternoon. PeeWee also became a participant in our diuretic clinical study, so we have been able to see him frequently for check-ups! This handsome boy has come so far in the last few weeks and it is such a pleasure to see him and his owners every time, so we have named him the February Patient of the Month.