Diagnóstico ecocardiográfico de malformação cardíaca complexa em potro quarto de milha

Abstract

Case of a Newborn Quarter Horse Colt, attended at the Veterinary Hospital of the Federal University of Mato Grosso, with complex cardiac malformation, diagnosis made through the Doppler echocardiography examination and afterwards performed necropsy, in which interventricular communication, persistence of oval foramen, Pulmonary cusp aplasia, and tricuspid atresia. There was alteration of the cardiac blood flow, with turbulent interventricular, interatrial and pulmonary artery flow. There was alteration of the cardiac blood flow, with turbulent interventricular, interatrial and pulmonary artery flow. The case could not be classified as tetralogy of Fallot or some deviration for not having dextroposition of the aorta and still for the occurrence of the persistence of the oval foramen.