Dr. Neil Harpster first described myocardial disease in the Boxer dog in the early
1980s. It was characterized as a degenerative myocardial disease with unique right
ventricular histologic findings that include myocyte atrophy and fatty infiltration
[
1
,
2
]. Affected dogs could be asymptomatic or syncopal with ventricular arrhythmias, and
they sometimes developed congestive heart failure. The disease seemed to have a greater
prevalence in certain families of dogs. In the early 1990s, Dr. Bruce Keene described
a family of Boxers with myocardial dysfunction, tachyarrhythmias and congestive heart
failure, and decreased myocardial carnitine levels [
[3]
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☆This work was generously supported by the American Kennel Club–Canine Health Foundation and the American Boxer Trust.
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