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