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Volume 15 (4): 297-303, 2011.  Redacted 2017.

Prevalence of cardiac arrhythmias in normal Camelus dromedaries.

 

Mehrdad Pourjafar1, Khalil Badiei1, Ali Asghar Chalmeh2, Mojtaba Naghib2, Hamid Pourmirzaei3, Mohamad Abdolhoseinzadeh3

 

1D.V.M, PhD, Associated Professor in Large Animal Internal Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. 2D.V.M, Resident in Large Animal Internal Medicine, Department of Clinical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran. 3D.V.M, Veterinary Organization of Yazd Province, Yazd, Iran. Raw data file has been submitted with this manuscript for independent statistical analysis.

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Pourjafar M, Badiei K, Chalmeh AA, Naghib M, Pourmirzaei H, Abdolhoseinzadeh M., Prevalence of cardiac arrhythmias in normal Camelus dromedaries, Onl J Vet Res.,  15 (4): 297-303, 2011. Prevalence of cardiac arrhythmias in different ages of clinically healthy dromedary camels was determined. The animals were divided into groups of <1, 1-5, 5-10 and 10 to-15 years.  Electrocardiograms (ECGs) were collected from 97 camels without any clinical signs of cardiac disease. ECGs indicated that 73 camels had 1-2 types of arrhythmias. Sinus arrhythmia, sinus tachycardia and sinus bradycardia. The proportion of different cardiac arrhythmias between <1  and 5-10 years old camels, were significantly different (P=0.001). Sinus arrhythmia was the most frequent arrhythmia recorded. Since none of the camels with cardiac arrhythmias showed any clinical signs of heart disease at the time of ECG recordings, the arrhythmias observed in this study could be considered as physiological.

 

Key words: cardiac arrhythmia, electrocardiogram, dromedary camel, physiological arrhythmia

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