This atlas shows Cardiology in a way it had never been done before. The images it contains, of both the healthy heart and the main heart diseases that affect dogs and cats, have a unique technical and artistic value.

Author

Juan Carlos Jiménez de la Puerta

He graduated in Veterinary Medicine from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1978. He obtained his PhD in Veterinary Medicine in 1993. He obtained a diploma in vascular and nerve microsurgery from the University of Extremadura in 1987, as well as a diploma in microsurgery from the Gregorio Marañón Hospital in 1988. He received a scholarship from the Madrid College of Veterinary Surgeons to complete an internship at the Department of Medicine and Experimental Surgery of the Gregorio Marañón Hospital in 1988, and another from the Centre for Industrial Technological Development to work at the Department of Cardiovascular Pharmacology of ALTER Laboratories (1989-1992).

He obtained a diploma in Echocardiography from the University of Murcia in 1996. In 1998 he won the AVEPA prize for scientific photography and was awarded the Miguel Luera prize in 2000. He is the author of several publications and papers in national and international journals and congresses. He has worked as a clinical veterinary surgeon since 1981 and has specialised in cardiology since 1988. He has organized several scientific and artistic photography exhibitions.

Table of Contents

1. Heart anatomy

     Orientation and location in the thoracic cavity

     Size of the heart

     Pericardium

     Cardiac surface and main blood vessels

     Fibrous skeleton

     Right atrium

     Right ventricle

     Left atrium

     Left ventricle

2. Mitral valve

     Mitral valve annulus

     Leaflets

     Chordae tendineae

     Papillary muscles

3. Tricuspid valve

     Tricuspid valve annulus

     Leaflets

     Chordae tendineae

     Papillary muscles

4. Aortic valve

     Outflow tract of the left ventricle

     Aortic root

5. Pulmonary valve

     Annulus

     Cusps

     Commissures

     Sinotubular junction

     Subcommissural triangles

     Sinuses of valsalva

6. Atrioventricular valve dysplasia

     Mitral valve dysplasia

     Tricuspid valve dysplasia

7. Aortic valve stenosis

8. Pulmonary valve stenosis

9. Patent ductus arteriosus

10. Septal communications

11. Myxomatous valve degeneration

       Histopathology

       Pathological changes

12. Dilated cardiomyopathy

13. Hypertophic cardiomyopathy

14. Pericardium and neoplasia

       Pericardial effusion

       Cardiac tumours

15. References