Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Haematology as an aid to prognosis of chronic laminitis

Haematology as an aid to prognosis of chronic laminitis J. R . COFFMAN, L. S. HAMMOND, H. E. GARNER Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, Equine Center at Middlebush Farm, Hwy 63 South, Columbia, Missouri, USA D. G. THAWLEY and L. A. SELBY Department of Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missourl USA A COMMON progression of chronic laminitis is ischaemic necrosis with secondary infection a frequent complication. For 6 years we have performed a complete blood count (CBC) on all hospitalised horses (at the University of Missouri Veterinary Hospital) every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Preliminary scrutiny of the results indicated that persistent elevation of the total white blood cell count (WBC) and neutrophilia was consistent with poor prognosis in horses affected with laminitis. Because of these considerations we decided to perform a retrospective examination of the blood cell determinations of laminitic horses which were discharged alive compared to those horses in which euthanasia was deemed necessary because of the intractable progression of clinical signs. The study group consisted of 50 horses affected with laminitis for more than 2 weeks. All horses were evaluated TABLE 1 : Comparison of haernatological results in laminitic horses discharged alive, laminitic horses euthanased and control group Sample time http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Equine Veterinary Journal Wiley

Haematology as an aid to prognosis of chronic laminitis

Download PDF
2 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/haematology-as-an-aid-to-prognosis-of-chronic-laminitis-oyUiM37iDo

References (0)

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 1980 EVJ Ltd
ISSN
0425-1644
eISSN
2042-3306
DOI
10.1111/j.2042-3306.1980.tb02297.x
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

J. R . COFFMAN, L. S. HAMMOND, H. E. GARNER Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, Equine Center at Middlebush Farm, Hwy 63 South, Columbia, Missouri, USA D. G. THAWLEY and L. A. SELBY Department of Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missourl USA A COMMON progression of chronic laminitis is ischaemic necrosis with secondary infection a frequent complication. For 6 years we have performed a complete blood count (CBC) on all hospitalised horses (at the University of Missouri Veterinary Hospital) every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Preliminary scrutiny of the results indicated that persistent elevation of the total white blood cell count (WBC) and neutrophilia was consistent with poor prognosis in horses affected with laminitis. Because of these considerations we decided to perform a retrospective examination of the blood cell determinations of laminitic horses which were discharged alive compared to those horses in which euthanasia was deemed necessary because of the intractable progression of clinical signs. The study group consisted of 50 horses affected with laminitis for more than 2 weeks. All horses were evaluated TABLE 1 : Comparison of haernatological results in laminitic horses discharged alive, laminitic horses euthanased and control group Sample time

Journal

Equine Veterinary Journal – Wiley

Published: Jan 1, 1980

There are no references for this article.