NAVLE - O.O.O's Review 16 Flashcards
Contagious equine metritis –
Taylorella equigentalis
Primary cause of equine infertility –
S. equi zooepidemicus
– Papules, ulcers, scars on penis, prepuce, vulva
Equine coital exanthema (EHV-3)
– S. equi equi
Strangles
– Blue-grey inclusion bodies. Rx oxytet, corticosteroids
Anaplasmosis
– Phenolic disinfectant, vaccinate
Prevent rotavirus
Tapeworms (Anocephala sp.) –
Intussusception in adult horses
– Horses are most susceptible
C. tetani
4 heart sounds –
Normal in horses
– Ulcerative pyogranulomatous lesion in nasal s/c tissue
Condibolous
– Eastern Tent Caterpillar
MRLS
– Mare has foal but there’s no milk production. Rx Domperidone
Fescue
– olecranon bursitis rx. Surgical drainage
Shoe boil (Capped elbow)
– Raised nodules on the cutaneous junction of lips
Melanoma
Pyrrolizidine Isoerythrolysis –
Qa+ and Aa+
– Nasal discharge, retching, coughing
Esophageal obstruction
Rupture of fibularis (peroneus tertius) –
Can simultaneously flex limb and extend hock
– Involuntary chewing movements, curling lips
Centaurea
Exercise-induced hemorrhage – Rx
Furosemide
– Most common mite, dermatitis of distal limb
Choriptic
– Horse coat does not shed in summer
Cushing’s
– Associated with epiploic foramen entrapment
Cribbing (Wind sucking)
– Flared nostrils, stretched neck, coughing
Mass in the throat
– Milk licking from udder of pregnant animal
Placentitis
– Magnesium ammonium sulfate
Enterolith
CNS edema Rx –
mannitol
– Reluctance to bring hindlimb forward on trot, drags hind feet
Sacroiliac disease
– Coral like structures in wound
Phytosis
Gestation in horses –
11 months
Tyzzer’s disease –
C. Pilliforme
– Bloody mammary secretions in pregnant mare
Ventral abdominal rupture
– Short anesthetic procedures
Guaifenesin
– Progressive weakness, decrease tongue tone
C. botulinum toxin
– Equine protozoal encephalomyelitis, gluteal atrophy
Sacrocystitis neurona
Cervical stenotic myelopathy mgt –
Restrict exercise
– Respiratory (air), placenta (tissue fluid), aborted fetus
EHV 1
– Thickening or bowing of plantar tarsal ligament
Curb
– Effusion/ inflammation of tarsal sheath of deep digital flexor tendon
Thoroughpin
– Avulsion/ peritonitis of extensor process of 3rd phalanx
Pyramidal disease
– Flaccid uterus, no Cl, follicle < 15mm
Anestrus
– Pelvic limb ataxia, spasticity of thoracic limbs
Degenerative myloencephalopathy