Acta Veterinaria Eurasia
Research Article

HEMODYNAMIC EFFECTS OF HYPOTHYROIDISM INDUCED BY ADMINISTRATION OF METHIMAZOLE TO EUTHYROID DOGS

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Department of Internal Medicine Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Istanbul University, 34320 Avcilar, Istanbul, Turkey

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Istanbul University. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Avcılar - Istanbul 34320. TURKEY

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İstanbul Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi, Doğum ve Jinekoloji Anabilim Dalı 34320, Avcılar, İstanbul

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Istanbul University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey

Acta Vet Eurasia 2003; 29: 203-211
Read: 963 Downloads: 608 Published: 26 December 2019

This study was carried out in order to determine the possible effects of methimazole upon the invasive parameters of the cardiac functions of the dogs. Ten dogs was used in this study. In the begining of the study and 8 weeks after orally administration of methimazole (30 mg/kg), serum T4, T3 and TSH concentrations and contraction (LVCT) and relaxation times (LVRT), systolic (LVSP) and diastolic pressures (LVDP) of left ventricle were measured. After weeks, serum T4, T3 concentrations. LVSP and LVDP were significantly decreased, while TSH concentrations was significantly increased. However, increasing in the LVCT was no important. No difference was observed between the LVRT of healty and hypothroid dogs. The results of the present study suggested that methimazole caused significant changes in serum thyroid hormone concentrations as well as the left ventricle pressures of dogs.

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