NAVLE - O.O.O's Review 15 Flashcards
– Irregular heart rhythm, Rx quinidine
Atrial fibrillation
Rx for Equine’s Cushing’s –
Pergolide
– Rx for Failure of passive transfer
IV plasma
– Neurogenic atrophy of cricoarytenoid dorsalis. Rx Laryngoplasty
Laryngeal hemiplegia
– Undershot
Brachygnathism
– Overshot (parrot mouth)
Prognathism
– an old horse with mass in the throat
Measure thyroid hormones
– lymph node abscess
Strangles
– Older horde with wheezes and crackles
RAO
– Pneumonia in foals
Rhodococcus Equi
– respiratory
EHV4
– Respiratory, reproductive, neurologic
EHV1
– Multinodular pulmonary fibrosis
EHV5
– Roaring, exercise intolerance
Laryngeal hemiplegia
– Sweet itch, pruritus
Insects
Pyrrolizidine toxicity –
hepatic damage
– Suprachoroidal, cyclosporine
Rx of recurrent uveitis
– rain scald/ paintbrush lesion
Dermatophilosis
– Foal born but becomes icteric few days after birth
Neonatal isoerythrolysis
Round worms rx –
fenbendazole
– praziquantel
Tape worms
– Fluid-filled swelling around metacarpo/ metatarso phalangeal joint
Windpuffs
– Tenosynovitis of tarsal sheath of deep digital flexor tendon
Thoroughpin
– Chronic synovitis of the tibiotarsal hock/ tarsocrural joint
Bog spavin
– 8% of body weight
Blood volume
– C.dx: Neutrophilia on bronchioalveolar lavage
RAO
– Aged horse with non-painful freely moveable subcut mass in the trachea
Non-functional thyroid adenoma
– Intermedia trachea ridge of the distal tibia
Osteochondriosis
Equine metritis (taylorella equigentalis) –
Post breeding reproductive problems
– Horse interacting with donkey
Dictyocalous (lung worms)
– Rx for Clostridialenterocolitis
Metronidazole
– Lesion is Common in grey horses, areas without fur e.g lips, external genitalia
Cutaneous melanoma
– Shifting leg lameness, hunter bumps, poor gluteal muscling
Sacroiliac disease
– icterus, increased GGT, ALP
Iron supplement in foals
Kissing spines –
Back pain, reluctance to move
– Desensitizes whole foot
Abaxial
– Desensitizes heel portion
Palmar
– Ossification of collateral cartilage of 3rd phalanx
Sidebone
Horsefly –
Gastrophilus
– Bulls eye skin lesion, alopecia, no mites
Onchocerca larva
– Conjunctiva flap graft
Deep corneal ulcers Rx
– Proximal enteritis
Gastric reflux
– Soya beans, kale, cabbage, turnips
Goitrogenic plants
– cant retract tongue, dribbling milk from nostrils
Shaker foal
– Pelvic flexure of the large colon
Large intestinal impaction
– Early beats between normal beats
Atrial bigeminy
– Broad ligament is displaced/ palpable over the uterus
Uterine torsion
– Beetle, the muzzle is submerged in water while trying to drink
Cantharidin toxicity
– Pale colored Egyptian foal with nystagmus, paddling
Lavender foal syndrome
Overo lethal white syndrome -
Paint foal in blue eyes has colic
– Prostheticlaryngoplasty
Rx for laryngeal hemiplegia
– seasonal prutitis, sweet itch
Culicoides
Equine metabolic syndrome – Dx
Fasting, resting insulin
– Cervical stenotic myopathy
Wobbler
Excess erythromycin –
C. difficile
– Wart-like mass on body
Papillomatosis
– Healthy horse, 3rd-trimester abortion
EHV1
– fever, petechiae, icterus, edematous hind limb
Anaplasmosis
– Bleeding while extracting wolf teeth
Palantine artery
– Fever, petechial, hemolytic anemia
Babesia caballi
Fracture of proximal sesamoid –
Damages suspensory ligament
– Between Cd 1-Cd2 or Cd1 – S5
Epidural
– High fever, hacking cough
EIV
– Respiratory disease, fever, abortion
Equine Arteritis Virus
– Muzzle foal, bottle feed
Neonatal isoerythrolysis
– Foal small forage, ventral edema, thickened small intestinal wall
Proliferative enteropathy
– Used to rx acute lameness
NSAID
Dictyocalous Rx –
Ivermectin
Bone marrow –
Sternebrae
– Retained placenta and metritis
Laminitis
– Acute hepatic necrosis
SDH
– Caused by chronic disease
Most anemias
- Swelling/ pain in jugular groove
Thrombophlebitis
– Sensory function to upper eyelid
Frontal nerve
– Motor function to upper eyelid
Auriculopalpebral nerve
– Fracture of ulna, olecranon, humerus
Dropped elbow appearance
– late abortion
EHV 1
Foal heat diarrhea - age? –
4 to 14 days
– Pruritic papules/ wheals in warmer months
Culicoides
– Pulmonic fibriosis
EHV5
– Swelling with bony tissue within swelling near ears/ temporalis
Dentigerous cyst
Dx for Strangles
PCR
– Bilateral epistaxis, coughing after exercise
Exercise induced hemorrhage
– Before interstate travels
Coggins test
– Acute painful periostitis of 3rd metacarpal bone
Bucked shin
– Sweating, prolapsed 3rd eyelid. Rx: 5% dextrose, 23% calcium borogluconate
HYPP
Sulfadiazine and Pyrimethamine
EPM – Rx
– Contraindicated in horses
Amitraz
Dermatophilosis – Rx
Spiramycin
– Synchronus diaphragmatic flutter rx. Calcium after training
Thumps
– Complication of Cushing’s
Laminitis
– Tetanus, rabies, West Nile
Core vaccines
– Failure to get pregnant after breeding
Acute endometritis
– Bilateral swelling over front knee
Physitis
– Foal born with viral pneumonia
EHV
– Hacking cough, high fever
Equine influenza virus
– Sweet pea
String halt
– K-leg
Carpal valgus
– Bowleg
Carpal varus
– Young horse with cough and exercise intolerance
Dorsal displacement of the soft palate
– Most common congenital abnormality in foal
Cataract
– Bluetongue, African horse sickness
Culicoides
– Western Equine Encephalitis
Culex
– Vesicular Stomatitis, visceral leishmaniasis
Sandflies
– Mucopurulent nasal discharge with ulcerated nodules
Glanders
– Guttural pouch mycosis, epistasis, damage to the internal carotid artery
Aspergillus
– Brown colored mass protruding from the corneal surface
Iris prolapse
– Anechoic structure in the uterus
Breed immediately
– Anechoic
Ovaries
– Hyperechoic
Corpus luteum
– Head pressing, circling, ataxia
Equine encephalomyelitis
– Unilateral swelling of scrotum, pain, colic
Inguinal hernia
Site for IM injection in horse –
Neck
– Febrile horse in fall with tremors, ataxia
West nile virus
– Cranial distal intermediate ridge of tibia (DIRT)
OCD
