Clinical Management of Mitral Valve Disease In General or Urgent Care Practice

Myxomatous mitral valve disease (MMVD) is the most common heart condition in small animal medicine. In this special webinar brought to you by Boehringer Ingelheim, veterinary cardiologist Dr. Lance Visser joins VerticalVet’s Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr. Ernie Ward, to share his tips on diagnosing and managing MMVD in general and urgent care veterinary practice. 


Topics include:

Clinical work-up/diagnostic evaluation for dogs with presumed MMVD
When to start medication(s) in dogs with presumed MMVD not showing clinical signs, especially without echocardiography. Includes radiographic assessment of heart size in dogs.
Clinical approach to coughing dogs with presumed MMVD
Diagnostic evaluation and management of dogs with suspected congestive heart failure secondary to MMVD
Assessing anesthetic risk in dogs with presumed MMVD


About our guest

Lance Visser, DVM, MS, DACVIM (Cardiology)

Associate Professor of Cardiology, Colorado State University


Dr. Visser is from Grand Rapids, Michigan. He obtained a BS in 2007

and combined DVM/MS in 2010 from Michigan State University. He then

completed a small animal rotating internship at North Carolina State

University in 2011. He completed a combined residency/MS program in

Cardiology at The Ohio State University in 2014. Dr. Visser recently

joined Colorado State University, where he is an Associate Professor of

Cardiology. Prior to this, he was at the University of California, Davis

(2014 - 2021). His primary research interest is improving the noninvasive

assessment of cardiac structure and function in animals with

cardiovascular disease.