Cushing’s and EMS: What’s the Difference?
Alexandra Beckstett
May 28, 2018
Practitioners must use clinical signs and laboratory testing to distinguish between these sometimes similar ailments.
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.
Amnion, the relatively thick innermost layer of the fetal tissues, contains numerous biological molecules that promote tissue growth and improve wound healing, researchers say.
The earlier you can detect endocrine conditions such as PPID and EMS, the better chance you have of preventing associated laminitis in affected horses.
Consider these dietary changes to help reduce the laminitis risk and discuss with your veterinarian whether certain medications could help your horse.
Funtional electrical stimulation, or FES, might help reduce back pain in horses with asymmetric multifidi muscles, researchers found.
Vaccinating mares against the polysaccharide poly-N-acetyl glucosamine appears to effectively protect foals against R. equi pneumonia, researchers found.
Thoroughbreds conditioned on water treadmills increased both their VO2max and speed.
If surgery requiring general anesthesia must be performed on pregnant mares, the safest time window is Days 40-220 of gestation, researchers concluded.
Researchers found that many horses not diagnosed with neck pain had bony changes in the cervical spine.
Understanding how pulmonary disease impacts performance can help veterinarians diagnose and treat issues that could be impairing horses’ athleticism.
A horse’s sinus cavities are complex, which makes diagnosing and managing equine sinus diseases challenging for veterinarians.
Whether they’re trapped, cast, or dead, down horses can be both difficult and dangerous to move. Here’s how to stay safe.
Horses with myositis experience rapid, widespread gluteal and epaxial muscle atrophy. Here’s what veterinarians know about about this immune-mediated condition.
Applying shock wave therapy immediately following PRP injection into injured soft-tissue structures might help increase the concentrations of growth factors released from the platelets, researchers found.
When cases are selected appropriately, the complication rate is very low and the prognosis for a full return to work is very good, one veterinarian says.
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