2018 AAEP Convention: Tuesday’s Top Tweets and Take-Homes
The Horse Staff
December 5, 2018
Top tweets from the AAEP President’s luncheon and Tuesday’s educational sessions.
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Top tweets from the AAEP President’s luncheon and Tuesday’s educational sessions.
Carolyn Arnold, DVM, Dipl. ACVS, of Texas A&M University offers a better understanding of the gut microbiome’s role in colic and colitis.
Being an equine veterinarian isn’t always easy, but one practitioner says it’s cases like this that make it all worthwhile.
Top tweets and take-homes from Monday’s educational sessions on topics including saddle fit and mare reproduction.
Top tweets from the opening session of the 2018 AAEP Convention, including highlights from the keynote address and Kester News Hour.
Dr. Kyla Ortved explains how bisphosphonate drugs work, their use in human medicine, and how they can help horses with navicular syndrome.
Researchers found that high-field MRI provided highly detailed and anatomically accurate images of equine stifle soft tissues.
MRI revolutionized the way veterinarians diagnose problems with the equine podotrochlear apparatus. Dr. Kyla Ortved explains its importance and when it’s worth the expense.
MRI is allowing vets to identify lameness conditions that were harder to evaluate in the past. One such ailment, most frequently found in sport horses, is osseous trauma of the long pastern bone’s sagittal groove. Here’s what they’ve learned so far about this condition.
Neck pain in horses remains challenging for veterinarians to diagnose and treat, but new options are on the horizon, one practitioner says.
Learn why antibiotics are used to treat certain infections in horses and how you can help prevent antibiotic resistance.
Find out how veterinarians used ozone to treat a mare with complications associated with superficial digital flexor tendinitis.
Steve Reed, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM, of Rood & Riddle Veterinary Hospital, in Lexington, Kentucky, offers his insight about equine herpesvirus-1, including diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Horses are at risk of adverse effects anytime they receive injections. However, researchers recently determined that stem cell injection site reactions in horses were uncommon in the population they studied.
In the first of this two-part series, we’ll explore full-body rehabilitation options, from the horse’s head to tail.
Are breathing issues slowing your horse down? Here are some surgical and management options that might help.
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