Goodaid, Dominic Barfield here, and this is the RVC Clinical Podcast.

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So today in the studio, joining Brian and myself, we're going to talk to Associate Professor David Connolly, one of our cardiologists here at the RBC.

So many thanks, David, for finally agreeing to

joining us in the studio. He says that under Broti Brow, I'm not even going to say about

the bribe that I had to offer him to come in here. So we're going to talk about hypertrophic

cardiomyopathy in Katsar. So maybe my first question to you is in your physical assessment, or how do we actually

diagnose hypertrophic cardiomythia in cats? The gold standard, unfortunately, in some ways,

is echocardiography, cardiac ultrasound, because one of the problems with hypertrophic cardiomy

is it's very common, and it can be silent in that there

could be no clinical signs in the pre-clinical period. And so a cat may not even have a murmur.

Unfortunately, there are an awful lot of cats out there which have murmurs and don't have any

underlying structural heart disease. So cats are quite difficult from that point of view. So if you hear a murmur and a cat doesn't necessarily mean that it's got a disease,

let alone hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Less commonly, but it is possible that you can have a cat without a murmur which has quite severe hypertrophic cardiomy path.

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