Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế về bệnh thú y đề tài: Echocardiography and electrocardiography as means to evaluate potential performance in horses | J. Vet. Sci. 2004 5 3 259-262 JOURNAL OF Short Communication Veterinary Science Echocardiography and electrocardiography as means to evaluate potential performance in horses Carlos Lightowler1 Giuseppe Piccione2 Elisabetta Giudice3 Gerardo Romei del Olmo1 Maria Laura Cattáneo3 lDepartamento de Medicina Faculty of Veterinary Sciences University of Buenos Aires 1427-Buenos Aires Argentina Dipartimento di Morfologia Biochimica Fisiologia e Produzioni animali Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Messina 98168-Messina Italia iDipartimento di Scienze Mediche veterinarie Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Messina 98168-Messina Italia Departamento de Medicina Preventivay SaludPùblica Faculty of Veterinary Sciences University of Buenos Aires 1427-Buenos Aires Argentina Prediction of potential performance is one of the goals of exercise physiology investigations. When Selecting a horse for competition one of the main objectives is to choose the one that predictably will reveal a competitive aptitude above the average. The horses used in this study underwent a two-dimensional echocardiography study and a conventional 3 leads electrocardiogram. The results show that heart score is not an appropriate index to evaluate the heart size in the horse. On the other hand there are currently more suitable and accurate procedures such as echocardiography that allow performing a clear anatomical evaluation and accurate measurement in order to calculate LVMM and to predict performance. Key words echocardiography electrocardiography left ventricular myocardial mass heart score performance horse When selecting a horse for competition one of the main objectives is to choose the one that predictably will reveal a competitive aptitude above the average. In the past several approaches have been performed to succeed in this kind of selection since the future yield of the horse is ignored when the selection is carried out. In 1963 Steel 1 established a relationship between some
