Navicular Bursitis in Horses: Improving Outcomes
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A nail, a wire, anything sharp. The sort of thing that doesn’t belong anywhere near a horse’s foot. Unfortunately, things like this do sometimes end up puncturing right through the frog or heel and up into the navicular area. When that happens, infection could set in, and the results can be devastating.
While surgery alone can improve the outcome of septic navicular bursitis, recent study results suggest outcomes are even better if surgery is combined with antimicrobial therapies, said David G. Suarez-Fuentes, DVM, who previously worked and conducted the study at Iowa State University (ISU) College of Veterinary Medicine, in Ames. When surgeons combine those therapies with the use of a special lifting bar shoe, success appears even more likely.
“We report the approach to the surgical procedure (navicular bursotomy) with the addition of the use of antimicrobial regional limb perfusions (not previously reported in combination with the bursotomy) in combination with systemic antibiotics to treat the contaminated and/or infected bursa,” Suarez-Fuentes said
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