Can Horses Fully Recover From EPM?
Michelle Anderson
May 31, 2022
Dr. Sarah Colmer shares how EPM recovery might vary among horses based on the severity of the disease.
Dr. Sarah Colmer shares how EPM recovery might vary among horses based on the severity of the disease.
EPM can be difficult to diagnose. Dr. Sarah Colmer explains how veterinarians use a neuro exam, bloodwork, and cerebrospinal fluid to confirm an EPM diagnosis.
Dr. Sarah Colmer shares management practices and preventive measures horse owners can implement to protect horses from EPM.
Dr. Sarah Colmer of the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center describes this neurologic disease and how horses contract it.
From imaging to diagnostic tests, vets have many ways to help horses with EPM, wobbler syndrome, and spinal cord injuries.
Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM) is notoriously difficult for veterinarians to diagnose and equally tricky to treat. But there’s hope as researchers continue to investigate this neurologic disease. Sponsored by Kentucky Performance Products.
The group will convene later this year to share the current state of expertise in the neurologic disease’s key areas.
Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis remains challenging to definitively diagnose. Here, a practitioner offers an update about the disease.
The Oklahoma State University College of Veterinary Medicine is looking for equine donations for two equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM) studies.
The guidelines, available as a PDF file, were reviewed and approved by the AAEP’s infectious disease committee and board of directors.
If your horse survives one of these five infections, he might still suffer lasting effects. Learn which diseases most commonly cause post-infection illnesses and how they can impact a horse’s long-term health, use, and quality of life.
Your horse might have been exposed to EPM’s causative parasites. Make sure you’re aware of this debilitating disease’s subtle signs so you can promptly contact your veterinarian for diagnosis and treatment.
Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis is a neurologic disease that can be difficult to diagnose and can threaten a horse’s athletic future. Learn more about this complicated and consequential condition.
Horses can experience more than one disease process at the same time, an occurrence known as comorbidity. In this article, we’ll take a look at equine diseases such as PPID and laminitis that veterinarians most commonly see in conjunction with other conditions.
Opossums are the culprits that transmit the causative parasite of EPM to horses. Dr. Dan Howe of the University of Kentucky recommends making an effort to keep them out of the barn and away from the food and water supplies.
Not all diseases have cut-and-dried diagnoses. In this article, veterinarians walk us through actual cases of three tough-to-diagnose diseases: botulism, EPM, and Potomac horse fever.
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