Lara Armengou Ruiz

Objectives and Contextualisation This subject has mainly a clinical focus. The student will have to apply the skills and knowledge gathered in other subjects such as Exploratory Methods, Animal Health, Animal Reproduction and Equine Medicine and Surgery. The Objectives are: 1) learning through resolution of practical clinical cases 2) obtain exposure to typical examples of clinical daily practice of an equine practitioner 3) develop the necessary skills to perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in horses

espanolLa miodegeneracion nutricional es una enfermedad que afecta exclusivamente al musculo cardiaco y esqueletico. Aparece con mas frecuencia en potros jovenes menores de 2 meses, aunque tambien se han descrito casos aislados en caballos adultos. Los signos clinicos pueden variar segun la fase en la que se encuentra la enfermedad y los grupos musculares afectados. Inicialmente puede aparecer disfagia leve que evoluciona a debilidad marcada y postracion del animal si no se hace un tratamiento adecuado. A continuacion se describe un caso con una presentacion clinica atipica. Se trata de un caballo Pura Raza Espanola de 11 anos de edad que inicialmente presentaba disfagia y pigmenturia y en menos de 24 horas evoluciono a debilidad marcada. El estudio histologico de la biopsia muscular fue de gran importancia para establecer un diagnostico definitivo e instaurar un tratamiento temprano, y asi conseguir una evolucion favorable del caso. EnglishNutritional myodegeneration is a disease o...

Algunos parametros basicos de la exploracion fisica como la frecuencia cardiaca, o parametros laboratoriales como el hematocrito y las concentraciones de lactato sanguineo y peritoneal, estan relacionados con el diagnostico clinico y pronostico en casos de colico

Septicemia is one of the most common clinical conditions in equine neonates. It is characterized by a systemic inflammatory response related to infection that may lead to MODS and death. Hypercoagulation or DIC are possible complications of septicemia that has been reported in human and veterinary medicine. In the last years, several hemostatic and hypercoagulation markers have been assessed in order to improve the diagnosis of hypercoagulation and DIC in subclinical stages. D-dimer, a fibrin-linked degradation product, has demonstrated a good specificity for diagnosis of thromboembolic disorders and a good prognostic value. In a severe and uncontrolled septicemia, hypercoagulation causes capillary microthrombi and fibrin deposition, which may be responsible in part of the MODS. Some studies in human and equine patients have suggested that incidence of MODS and subsequent death can be reduced by early antithrombotic therapy, in order to reduce sequela related to hypercoagulation. Th...