New Scale Makes It Easier To Track Progress In Endocrine-Related Laminitis Cases - Horse Racing News
New Scale Makes It Easier To Track Progress In Endocrine-Related Laminitis Cases Sponsored by: Laminitis can be an insidious disease, sometimes coming on so subtly that indications are missed until horses are blatantly lame. The ability to grade lameness according to its severity can be helpful to determine if a treatment is working and to assess the efficacy of new treatments. A scale had previously been developed to describe levels of lameness in horses that have laminitis from a specific episode, like starch overload or sepsis, but this scale wasn't necessarily applicable to hors...
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