Office of Marketing and Communications. Media Relations2017-07-102017-07-102014-12-09https://hdl.handle.net/1813/51891This news item from the Cornell Chronicle is about: Last April, Dylan Raskin’s Japanese Chin, Esme, was diagnosed with mitral valve regurgitation, a fatal condition that causes backflow of blood in the heart’s chambers. Though veterinarians initially treated the condition with pills, the dog’s heart failure became worse, leading specialists to predict just a few more months of life for Esme.en-USCornell University. College of Veterinary Medicine -- Periodicals.Flanders, JamesRamanujan, KrishnaCornell Chronicle2014 CVM News: Rare canine open-heart surgery succeedsarticle