Scientific advancements in modern medicine have helped
prolong significantly human life length. In the veterinary field, theseachievements have been just marginal; more of them due to adequate veterinarypreventive care, among others. However, it is expected that in the next decades
there will be also great progresses in the field of companion animal medicine
due to the tendency to suffer from conditions related to ageing, as occurs in
human beings . Diseases like chronic renal disease, cancer or heart disease are
very common in the geriatric dog or cat.
A very common complication from the
above mentioned circumstances is systemic hypertension, and when properly
diagnosed, warrant classification and management. Systemic hypertension is of
concern, because can cause injury to tissues, commonly referred to as
Target-Organ Damage (TOD), which is generally a strong indication for
antihypertensive therapy.Recent advancements in diagnostic techniques to determineBlood Pressure (BP) make possible to obtain rapid and accurate measurements inconscious animals. One priority for a busy practitioner and owners is to obtain
quick and reliable results by using non-invasive methods.
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