Clinical Context Peer-reviewed veterinary literature continues to shape everyday decision-making for feline patients, especially when new evidence clarifies diagnosis, treatment selection, monitoring, or clinical outcomes.

What the Study Evaluated A study published in Journal of veterinary internal medicine in 2026 evaluated effect of echocardiographic imaging view and methods on left ventricular wall-thickness measurements in normal cats and cats with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy..

Key Findings Echocardiographic measurements of left ventricular free wall (LVFW) and interventricular septum (IVS) thickness are essential for diagnosing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). To evaluate agreement between different imaging views and modes for assessing LV wall thickness in cats. We hypothesized that there is clinically relevant bias between methods, and that results cannot be used interchange…