Sittensen, Germany, April 23 to 25, 2027
in cooperation with Hanseklinik für Pferde
Mary Durando, Gunther van Loon and Lesley Young will examine real cases with the participants to
- determine which horses are most likely real (future) patients and which ones do not need further work up per se based on the clinical exam;
- diagnose the cause of a murmur and define the status of compensation / decompensation by performing ultrasound;
- differentiate physiological arrhythmias from pathological ones after the clinical exam and ECG identifying to select the patients that are at risk or need anti-arrhythmic therapy.
We encourage you to bring along your own equipment! We can take up to 21 participants only.
Instructors
Mary Durando
received her DVM degree from the University of Georgia before completing a residency in large animal internal medicine at the University of Florida. She became a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Large Animal) in 1996 and completed doctoral work in Physiology at the Medical University of South Carolina with research on endotoxemia and endotoxin tolerance. After this, she completed two years in a cardiology/ultrasound training program in the Sports Medicine section at the University of Pennsylvania New Bolton Center before taking a position as a Lecturer in Equine Medicine at the University of California, Davis for 3 years. Mary returned to New Bolton Center to work in their treadmill facility for 3 years, with a research emphasis on cardiopulmonary physiology during exercise, before working as an associate clinical professor in Large Animal Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Currently, she is a part owner of Equine Sports Medicine Consultants, an ambulatory consulting practice focusing on sports medicine and imaging, cardiology and internal medicine. She also is on the Internal Medicine staff at Mid Atlantic Equine Medical Center, in Ringos, NJ, and at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital, Wellington, FL.
Gunther van Loon
graduated from Ghent University, Belgium, in 1992 and has worked at Ghent University, Department of Large Animal Internal Medicine, ever since. In 2001 he finished his PhD on “Atrial pacing and experimental atrial fibrillation in equines”. In 2004 he became Diplomate of the European College of Equine Internal Medicine and in 2011 Associate Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging. He is now Professor in Large Animal Internal Medicine at Ghent University and his major interests are cardiology (arrhythmias, electrophysiology, cardiac pacing, echocardiography, TDI, 2D ST, biomarkers), and thoracic and abdominal ultrasound.
Lesley Young
has been providing specialist cardiology referral services to Equine practitioners in the UK and Europe for over 30 years. She holds an RCVS diploma in Veterinary cardiology, is an honorary member of BEVA, and an honorary professor of the Royal Dick Vet in Edinburgh. Lesley still attends over 130 referral equine cardiology cases per annum. Along with her colleagues Professors John Keen and Karen Blissitt from the Dick Vet in Edinburgh, the so called “DICKY TICKERS” provide cardioversion services based at The Royal Dick Large Animal and Newmarket Equine Hospitals and at several equine hospitals across the United Kingdom and Ireland. During her time at the Animal Health trust between 1995 and 2005, her research work on cardiac murmurs in racing Thoroughbreds improved understanding of the impact and epidemiology of valvular regurgitation in horses and provided insights into the cardiovascular effects of training in athletic horses.