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Equine Laminitis: Current Concepts

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The horse industry makes a significant economic and cultural contribution to Australia, and the maintenance of horse health and welfare is a primary concern of owners, trainers and veterinarians alike. Laminitis is a painful and devastating disease that can cripple a horse and end its productive life. This report Equine Laminitis: Current Concepts describes four research projects that initially focussed on the developmental and acute stages of laminitis. The research teams involved in these projects included microbiologists, molecular biologists, pathologists, electron microscopists, physiologists and endocrinologists, and this unique critical mass has enabled significant contributions to the understanding of laminitis…

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The horse industry makes a significant economic and cultural contribution to Australia, and the maintenance of horse health and welfare is a primary concern of owners, trainers and veterinarians alike. Laminitis is a painful and devastating disease that can cripple a horse and end its productive life. This report Equine Laminitis: Current Concepts describes four research projects that initially focussed on the developmental and acute stages of laminitis. The research teams involved in these projects included microbiologists, molecular biologists, pathologists, electron microscopists, physiologists and endocrinologists, and this unique critical mass has enabled significant contributions to the understanding of laminitis. As new knowledge accrued a successful preventive strategy, employing distal limb cryotherapy, was developed that is now the only scientifically proven laminitis preventive. The importance of this report is that it provides an overview of laminitis for horse owners, veterinarians and scientists. It describes the anatomy, physiology and ultrastructure of the horse’s foot to form a basis for understanding the complex pathology that underpins the disease. It describes the radiology of the horse’s foot and introduces the new technique of retrograde venography. 115 p.

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Authors expertises affiliations

  • Christopher Pollitt. Professor of Equine Medicine. The University of Queensland St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland (Australia), School of Veterinary Medicine.
  • Publication date (reprint original edition 2008 to digital version): 2018-07 – RIRDC Publications.

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13 October 2024

Laminitis is typical of Ungulates but it is especially significant in horses. The most prevalent clinical signs are difficulty turning and a short/stilted or lame walk. Very severe, highly acute laminitis cause the third phalanx to detach from the hoofwall and to drop ventrally inside the hoof, favoured both by the destruction of the dermal-epidermal junction, as well as by a hyperplasia of the epidermal laminae that produce a horny growth (keraphylocele). This research report describes very well the developmental and acute stages of laminitis, gathering a multidisciplinary team of microbiologists, molecular biologists, pathologists, electron microscopists, physiologists and endocrinologists. This unique report provides a high quality contribution to the understanding of equine laminitis.

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