A giraffe survived an attack from a pride of lions in a harrowing five-hour battle captured by a safari guide. This method has obviously not been validated because our study is the first to report the use of echocardiography on the giraffe heart and no gold standard for measurements in this species exists. @Sunil, Are you saying that Hindu or other vegetarians don't die of heart attack? Diastolic and systolic wall thicknesses were measured in the septum and in the free wall. We measured the diastolic and systolic short-axis endocardial and epicardial diameters from the septum to the lateral wall, defining the right ventricular endocardial border as the septal ‘epicardium’. Arterial pressure may exceed 300 mmHg and has historically been attributed to an exceptionally large heart. They are good for this kind of medicine. In nine anaesthetized giraffes (495±38 kg), we determined Giraffes are the tallest extant animals on Earth and are renowned for their high mean arterial blood pressure (Although the normal size of the giraffe heart now appears well established, it remains enigmatic how the high mean These studies were part of the second expedition by The Danish Cardiovascular Giraffe Research Programme (DaGIR) in October–November 2010 to Hammanskraal, Gauteng Province, South Africa.Experiments were performed on eight juvenile male giraffes (All studies were performed on anaesthetised giraffes using an experimental protocol and a set-up as described previously by The cardiovascular measurements completed in the present study would be virtually impossible to achieve in conscious animals where the necessary restraint and handling stress would be ethically unacceptable and cause considerable disturbance to haemodynamic variables.
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