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HEART
STUDY MOVES TO NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
from Susan Murphy
Update May 12, 2012
UPDATE: DOPPLER FORM DOWNLOAD 06.09.2012
We have been unable to retrieve the health clinic's Echo data from Bari
Olivier. As you all know, the Health Committee asks the providers from
each health clinic to send the data directly to the researcher in order
to secure confidentiality, so only the reseaarcher and the provider have
the information.
I am making every effort to retrieve all the echo data from the health
clinic providers. As you can see from the list below, I need help from
the participants at the 2006, 2007 and 2008 clinics. You can help by sending
a copy of your BT's echo report to Dr. Meurs.
2006 Boston - information unavailable from Dr. Morris. Clinic participants
send your report to Dr. Meurs
2007 Gettysburg - information unavailable from Dr. Morris. Clinic participants
send your report to Dr. Meurs
2008 Orlando - information unavailable from Dr. Spier. Clinic participants
send your report to Dr. Meurs
2009 (no clinic)
2010 Pittsburgh - Dr. Sikorska sending echo data to Dr. Meurs
2011 Orlando - Dr. Spier sent ech data to Dr. Meurs
If you are doing Echo/Dopplers on your Bull Terriers and would like to
participate in this study, send the reports to Dr. Meurs. All information
in this study will be kept confidential.
Dr. Meurs is working on a new Echo/Doppler data form for your Cardiologist's
use in recording and forwarding reports to the study. It will be available
for download soon.
Kate Meurs
Assistant Dean - Research
College of Veterinary Medicine
1060 William Moore Drive
Raleigh, NC 27607
If you have any questions, or need more information regarding the submission
of your echo report, please contact Susan Murphy at susan778@aol.com.
HEART STUDY MOVES TO NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
from Susan Murphy
The Health Committee has discussed the heart study, currently with Dr.
Bari Olivier at MSU, at great length and has concluded that after six
years into this project, with a good amount of data submitted by our membership,
there should be some statistical information that would move us on to
the next step. However, that is not the case, thus our decision to move
the study to Dr. Kate Meurs at North Carolina State University.
This was a major decision, but if we are going to move forward with this
project, we felt that Dr. Meurs was the person to help us. I am sure you
are all aware of Dr. Meurs' work in Cardiology with Dobermans and Boxers
with issues including Subvalvular Aortic Stenosis, Dilated Cardiomyopathy
and Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy. If you would like
to know more about Dr. Meurs, she has a very interesting podcast on the
AKC Canine Health Foundation's website. You can reach it at http://www.akc-akcchf.libsyn.com.
In making this decision, we made sure that we were able to secure all
previously submitted data from Dr. Olivier and have it forwarded to Dr.
Meurs at NCSU. In the meantime, hold on to any test data you may have
until we finalize directions for submitting new data to Dr. Meurs. We
are excited that Dr. Meurs has accepted our Bull Terriers and the study
and are hopeful to move forward soon, but it is going to take us awhile
to get up and running since Dr. Meurs just transferred to NCSU as Associate
Dean - Research. We will make every effort to have all the information
to you as soon as possible
Download Dopler
Form - NEW FORM COMING SOON
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