The meeting offered 127.5 hours of continuing education for veterinarians across all aspects of equine medicine, including dentistry, complementary medicine, reproduction, and more.
Dr. Amy Stieler Stewart is studying the potential therapeutic benefits of stem cells in colic cases.
Top tweets from the AAEP President’s luncheon and Tuesday’s educational sessions.
Dr. Jeff Berk is a central Kentucky-based Thoroughbred practitioner exclusively focused on domestic and international sales work.
Top tweets and take-homes from Monday’s educational sessions on topics including saddle fit and mare reproduction.
Get an early look at the American Association of Equine Practitioners’ 64th Annual Convention in San Francisco, California.
There’s not one particular approach for rehabilitating injured joints. Here are a few of the options vets have to use.
An automated feeder that provides grain in multiple small meals throughout the day might help reduce the prevalence of gastric ulcers in horses in training.
Veterinarians retrieve most foreign bodies from the mare uterus manually; however, more challenging cases, might benefit from the use of hysteroscopy tools and equipment.
The convention will offer approximately 130 hours of continuing education for veterinarians presented by researchers, academicians, and practitioners.
Acclaimed equine cardiologist and ultrasonography pioneer Dr. Virginia B. Reef will help practitioners determine the significance of murmurs and arrhythmias and the resulting ramifications for their treatment and management.
Equine recurrent uveitis, or ERU, remains a timely, expensive, and unrewarding disease to treat due to recurrence, loss of vision, and loss of use.
Changes in the diameter of the caudal vena cava (a large vein that returns blood to the heart from the back half of the body) during respiratory cycles could be used to evaluate fluid volume in foals, researchers found.
There are six main classes of corneal ulcers in horses that veterinarians must consider and properly diagnose to institute appropriate therapy.
Practitioners must use clinical signs and laboratory testing to distinguish between these sometimes similar ailments.
Horse owners might want to have their mares’ ovaries surgically removed for a variety of reasons, including to prevent pregnancy, get rid of tumors, or, most commonly, resolve behavioral issues.
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