Parâmetros eletrocardiográficos de cães com doença periodontal antes e após o tratamento

Abstract

Periodontal disease is one of the most common conditions in domestic animals. This disease predisposes others by the phenomenon of anachoresis, the rich vascularization present in the periodontium associated with tooth movement during chewing causes the entry of bacteria into the vessels, characterizing a condition of bacteremia, which can lead to an inflammatory process in organs such as kidneys, liver and heart. The ECG is one of the most important tools for veterinary medicine in the detection of cardiac disorders, as it is a non-invasive, specific and sensitive test. The objective was to correlate periodontal disease with changes in the parameters of the electrocardiogram exam in patients at the Veterinary Hospital "Francisco Edilberto Uchoa Lopes" of the State University of Maranhão. Three medical register of animals submitted to dental treatment were collected, which were classified according to periodontal disease and electrocardiographic examination, the animals were in the moderate to severe stage of the disease, in the electrocardiographic examination it was observed that in all wave variables there were decrease in value after treatment, although not significantly (p>0.05), this demonstrates that treatment can somehow decrease the excitability of electrical conduction fibers in the heart. Although the results of this work, in agreement with the literature on the aforementioned topic, have found correlations between periodontal disease and heart disease, the number related to this research, and due to the fact that cardiovascular diseases have numerous predisposing factors, becomes suggestive of the correlation, due to the decrease in the value of the excitability variables of the electrical conduction fibers in the heart, found in the study