Proteins Can Predict Colic Surgery Survival

Tina Holberg Pihl, DVM, PhD, associate professor of medicine and surgery at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Large Animal Sciences, performed the study in collaboration with practitioners at the University of Pretoria, in South Africa. She presented her results at the 2017 International Equine Colic Research Symposium, held July 18-20, in Lexington, Kentucky.
“We wanted to see if acute phase proteins are adding something to what we are already looking at,” she said. “We don’t need another test (if it’s not useful).”
Pihl explained that APPs are elevated in horses with severe colic, and researchers already know there’s an association between blood APP concentrations and survival. “Larger studies evaluating the prognostic value of APPs are, however, lacking,” she said. “I wanted to see if serum amyloid A and haptoglobin in blood and peritoneal fluid and fibrinogen (in blood) could give a prognosis in these horses
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