Bulldog Heart Problems
Bulldogs and French Bulldogs are prone to a wide range of painful and debilitating breed-related medical conditions. Most can be prevented and safely treated at your home, at a minimal cost.
Category: Heart / Blood
Cancer in French Bulldogs
What is that?
Bulldogs and French Bulldogs Heart Base Tumors are usually chemodectomas with Chemoreceptor cells of their origin.
Symptoms
They usually affect the heart and heart sac (pericardium), leading to fluid accumulation in the heart sac and abdominal cavity.
Treatment
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Heartworms
What is that?
Bulldog and French Bulldog Heartworms are transmitted by a mosquito bite; they are harmful and potentially life-threatening.
Symptoms
Heartworm preventives can be given annually by a single injection or monthly via the oral or topical route.
Treatment
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Endocardiosis
What is that?
Endocarditis in bulldogs and French bulldogs is a degenerative heart disease usually of the mitral valve.
Symptoms
It can start with only a heart murmur and progress to coughing, exercise intolerance, fainting, and congestive heart failure
Treatment
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Dilated Cardio Myopathy (DCM)
What is that?
Bulldog Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) combines thinning of the heart muscle and heart chambers (left ventricle) with high blood pressure inside the heart chamber that leads to the stretching of the wall (Dilation).
Symptoms
Heart murmur, abnormal fast rate, and rhythm, coughing, gaging, dilated fluid-filled belly, exercise intolerance, fainting, sudden death. New research has shown that grain-free diets can lead to bulldog DCM.
Treatment
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Aortic Stenosis
What is that?
Bulldog and French bulldog Aortic stenosis and subaortic stenosis (SAS) is a hereditary congenital heart disease that is rare in most breeds but common in bulldog puppies. It is a narrowing at the aortic valve of the heart.
Symptoms
A heart murmur on a physical exam, coughing, exercise intolerance, fainting, with time possible heart failure.
Treatment
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Heart Disease
What is that?
Bulldogs and French Bulldogs heart Disease can be a congenital born defect like aortic and/or pulmonary stenosis or one that is acquired at a later age like dilatative cardiomyopathy, heart base tumors, and endocardiosis.
Symptoms
Signs of heart disease can be coughing, lethargy, labor breathing, fainting, distended abdomen, cyanosis, and exercise intolerance.
Treatment
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Pulmonary Stenosis
What is that?
Bulldog and French bulldog Pulmonary stenosis is a hereditary congenital heart disease that is rare in most breeds but common in bulldog puppies. It is a narrowing at the pulmonary heart valve.
Symptoms
Murmur on a physical exam, coughing, exercise intolerance, arrhythmia, fainting, heart failure.
Treatment
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