Holter Results

I received the first report via email last night. The portion with just the info and no interpretation. Then received the cardiologist's interpretation via email this morning.


RED was monitored for a total of 23:59 hours. The total time analyzed was 22:31 hours. Start time was 11:50AM1. There were a total of 94597 beats.

The Mean Heart Rate was 70.
The Maximum Heart Rate was 216 at 5:26:13PM1.
The Minimum Heart Rate was 32 at 8:42:36AM2.
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Ventricular Ectopy
Total: 1
Single: 1
Pairs: 0
Total Runs: 0
(Ventricular escape beat: 1)

Supraventricular Ectopy
Total: 0
Single: 0
Pairs: 0
Total Runs: 0
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Pauses: Total: 0 ( Greater than 5.0 sec.)
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COMMENTS:
VPB SUMMARY: 1 single, 0 pairs, 0 runs.


And the interpretation by the cardiologist:


Interpretation: Normal Holter recording. The cut off for large breed dogs is 50 VPCs/24 hours. I would NOT consider this dog affected with cardiomyopathy at this time based on the Holter alone.

Conclusion: Normal Holter. Repeat Holter in one year if continued screening for cardiomyopathy desired.


So basically this means the results don't support DCM at this time, but as we all know with Holters, you can rule it in, but you can't rule it out. Red will have his echo repeated in September, 6 months since the first echo.

Special thanks again to Amanda for letting us borrow your equipment - I can't thank you enough!!!