Joint problems in foal and growing horses
1996
Tulamo, R.-M. (Helsinki Univ., Helsinki (Finland). Faculty of Veterinary Medicine)
The differential diagnosis of foal lameness are birth injuries, digital hyperextension (laxed tendons), tendon contractures or ruptures, joint infections, foot abscesses and fractured third phalanx and osteochondrosis. Birth injuries are usualy seen soon after birth but may be difficult to see if foal is weak and unable to stand. These include laxed tendons, contracted tendons, luxated patella, dislocated fetlock or carpal joints or fractures at the epihyseal plate. Joint infections are one of the most common causes of lameness in foals. The infection is hematogenous, bacteria gain access to blood via infection in lungs, gastrointestinal tract (diarrhea) or umbilicus (persistent urachus and/or abscess). Foot abscess develops when the soft foal hoof is worn out. Usually the abscess is on the toe, sometimes along the white line, and foal is very lame. Osteochondrosis OCD in the horse was first diagnosed in the 1960's and has since become one of the most common disease in growing horses. It is a disturbance in endochondral ossification during the active growth of the bone, especially at epihyseal area under the articular cartilage
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