/ Companion Animal Health Content for °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û×ßÊÆͼ en /news/pet-hearts-can-need-healing-too <p>It’s not just humans who can suffer from heart disease — it affects our pets, too. And understanding disease in companion animals might help us treat human diseases.</p> <p>Recognized as a pioneer in veterinary cardiology, the University of California, Davis, is developing and testing a number of techniques now widely used in clinics and training generations of residents in the field.</p> <p>While cats and dogs make up most of the heart patients seen at °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±½á¹û×ßÊÆͼ, the hospital also regularly examines horses, birds, reptiles, small mammals and zoo animals.</p> February 11, 2016 - 11:19am Karen Michele Nikos /news/pet-hearts-can-need-healing-too