Nutritional muscular dystrophy in a four-day-old Connemara foal

Irish Veterinary Journal

PJ Pollock²  S O'Dwyer¹  LM Katz¹ 

[1] University Veterinary Hospital, School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland;Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, 464 Bearsden Road, Glasgow. G61 1QH, UK

关键词: vitamin E;    white muscle disease;    weakness;    selenium;    nutritional muscular dystrophy;    foal;    equine;    enzymes;    elevated muscle;   

Others  :  1149951
DOI  :  10.1186/2046-0481-62-2-119

【 摘 要 】

This report describes a four-day-old, full-term Connemara colt, presented for the evaluation of a progressive inability to rise unassisted. A diagnosis of nutritional muscular dystrophy was made based on muscular weakness, elevated muscle enzymes and low vitamin E, selenium and glutathione peroxidase activity. The foal was treated with intramuscular vitamin E-selenium and made a full recovery.

   

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