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Many cardiac diseases in dogs are associated with a heart size increase, especially in more advanced stages, and cardiac size assessment has been of great interest for a long time for both clinicians and researchers. A substantial number of methods for heart size measurement has been described; however, two methods, the vertebral heart score and the vertebral left atrial size are currently widely used in dogs. Therefore, the literature provides an abundant number of research articles for using these measurements in both healthy dogs and dogs with cardiac and extra-cardiac pathologic conditions. 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