A review of the literature on how laminitis develops was recently published in the Equine Veterinary Journal. The authors looked at the literature concerning the various experimental models of laminitis, the mechanisms for inflammatory (sepsis) and metabolic (endocrinopathy) laminitis and how contralateral limb laminitis and pasture-associated laminitis might fit into these forms of disease.
When dealing with suspected laminitis cases, equine veterinarian Andrea Floyd suggests that farriers develop specific protocol to follow each time you look at a horse.
Laminil is the first injectable drug treatment for acute and active chronic laminitis that inhibits the inflammatory response and the laminitis cascade. Laminil can treat both acute laminitis and active chronic laminitis. The drug is a mast cell stabilizer that inhibits inflammatory mediators and other chemicals from being released from the mast cell in excess. When the inflammatory mediators are not released in excess, then the laminitis cascade is broken/halted, and the horse is able to heal and recover.
Researchers in Spain studied the hoof conformation of Catalan Pyrenean horses raised in a semi-feral environment to describe their size, shape and bilateral symmetry.
The 2012 Laminitis Conference took place in Monterey, Calif., on Nov. 2 and 3. Here are some of the "take home" points offered by speakers during the conference.
A recent study by researchers at the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine revealed that equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM), caused by two different parasites, is widespread throughout the United States.
Equine Veterinarians at the University of California-Davis are looking at the possibilities of using an experimental biological insect-control drug as a potential treatment for laminitis.
In this episode, Mark Ellis, a Wisconsin farrier who learned the ropes with Renchin, recalls Red’s relationships with area veterinarians, his legacy and the second career as American Farriers Journal’s technical editor.
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