Prepurchase Examinations; Take-Homes From the 2017 Equine Ophthalmology Symposium

Equine Eyelid Problems

Even small injuries to the horse’s eyelids are important and require veterinary attention. Here’s what to watch for.

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Color Vision In the Horse

Understanding how the horse sees the world can give horse owners an appreciation of their animals’ behavior. In addition to their reduced color perception (which makes certain color cues relatively useless), horses also have slightly poorer visual

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Look Into His Eyes

Look Into His Eyes

Your veterinarian has an array of instruments and techniques for examining your horse’s eyes.

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Glaucoma in Foals

I am looking for information on glaucoma in foals. Any information will be helpful.

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The Equine Eye

Because it is a prey animal, the horse has both monocular and binocular vision. Its monocular vision is the result of having one eye located on each side of the skull instead of both eyes in the front. This means that the horse has far greater periph

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Mysterious Eye Inflammation Traced to Plant Burrs

Fall and winter sometimes bring unexplained eye problems in horses and cattle, with irritation and inflammation, or corneal ulcers. Some of the horses examined at these college clinics over the past several years had microscopic barbed slivers”all and

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Equine Corneal Problems: Wait and See Will Not Work

A corneal ulcer (ulcerative keratitis) is the most serious eye disease that veterinarians treat. Defined as a lesion in which the outer layer and some of the middle layer of the cornea have been lost, even simple ulcers can quickly progress to

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Uveitis Research Pinpoints

A recent study published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association provides evidence that persistent ocular (eye) infection with the bacterium Leptospira interrogans is much more common in horses with recurrent

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