Análise de flutuações sem tendência aplicada na avaliação da frequência cardíaca em cães da raça Rottweiller.

Abstract

The early identification of cardiac activity changes is of great importance in veterinary medicine for small animals like dogs. These changes can be due congenital cardiac problems, including that arising the aging. When these pets are submitted to effort is possible the observation of cardiac diseases before without symptoms and that can lead to death of the animal. It´s possible prevent and to diagnosis some of these cardiopathies with clinical and lab exams. A low cost exam and of fundamental importance in clinical is the electrocardiogram (ECG). In this research the ECG was analyzed using a nonlinear mathematical method, the Detrended Fluctuation Analysis, that allows identifies changes of the patterns in a heart rate time series, sometimes imperceptible to the cardiologist. Here DFA was used to assess the heart rate oscillations observed using the RR interval of the ECG in healthy adult dogs, aiming to establish parameters to characterize changes in heart rate. The heart rate fluctuations in Rottweiler breed dogs could be parameterized by the coefficients α-DFA, whose median and interquartile range were, respectively equals to: α=0.6618(0.6161-0.6953; n=7) in the rest and α=0.8293(0.7837-0.8811; n=7) post-effort, which differ at a significance level p <0.05. Therefore, the DFA was efficient to differentiate the heart rate series in the rest relative to post-effort.