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Annual Report 2005 - Boehringer Ingelheim

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heartWhen<br />

her Labrador Buster<br />

fell ill, he could no longer play with<br />

little Anna Kingston. “Our dog was frail and<br />

apathetic,” says Anna’s mother, Liz. Buster was<br />

unresponsive, weak and lacked his usual spirit.<br />

Like the one in ten dogs with heart disease, he was suffering from what the<br />

experts call dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) which produces changes in the heart,<br />

reducing its capacity, leading to congestive heart failure. This at first causes<br />

breathing difficulties and exhaustion, later leading to premature death.<br />

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