Placentitis
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Fertilization and Early Pregnancy Loss in Mares
One of the most important causes of embryo loss during early gestation is post-breeding endometritis.
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Placentitis and Foals' Athletic Prognosis
November 18, 2012
There were few performance differences between foals born to healthy mares and those treated for placentitis.... Read More
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Fertilization and Early Pregnancy Loss in Mares
April 27, 2012
One of the most important causes of embryo loss during early gestation is post-breeding endometritis.... Read More
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Nocardioform Placentitis Affecting Kentucky's 2011 Foal Crop
January 11, 2012
In 2011 more than 325 confirmed cases were submitted for evaluation--the largest number on record.... Read More
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Increase in Abortions Noted in Kentucky Broodmares
February 01, 2011
The University of Kentucky's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (VDL) has noted an increase in the number of abortions reported in Kentucky's 2011 foal crop, especially those caused by nocardioform placentitis. The VDL, which reported 19 cases from... Read More
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Dummy Foal Syndrome (Equine Neonatal Maladjustment Syndrome)
December 01, 2010
Foals exhibit abnormal, often vague behaviors and/or neurologic signs during their first few days of life. ... Read More
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Placentitis Research Could Help Prevent Late-Term Abortions
December 18, 2009
Placentitis, which often is caused by an ascending infection that enters the mare's uterus through the cervix, is the single most important cause of premature delivery of a foal. Placentitis accounts for nearly one-third of late-term aborti... Read More
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Equine Placentitis: Common Causes and Newly Emerging Pathogens
April 15, 2008
During the past six years (Jan. 2, 2002 - Jan. 31, 2008), 1,429 cases of equine placentitis have been diagnosed at the University of Kentucky Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center (LDDC). Of these, 1,189 cases had an infectious agent identified.... Read More
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Systemic Therapy in the High-Risk Mare
February 01, 2007
Several conditions can threaten pregnancy in the late gestational mare. C.S. Bailey, DVM, who is completing a theriogenology residency at the University of Florida and Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in Lexington, Ky., said some of these... Read More
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Early Arrivals
December 01, 2006
Premature deliveries don't occur frequently, but when they do, difficult decisions must often be made: How much supportive care should be given to the preemie foal? Does the preemie stand a reasonable chance of being the sound, healthy competitor o... Read More
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Fetus at Risk
March 03, 2005
When a pregnant mare develops a problem that puts her fetus at risk, what can be done? Some of these foals can be saved if the problem can be discovered early and the mare given proper treatment to reverse the condition. Jon Palmer, VMD,... Read More
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Placentitis Treatment
March 03, 2005
Once a mare is diagnosed with placentitis, he said, it is incumbent upon the veterinarian to inform the owner about potential outcomes. The underlying message was that treatment of a premature foal in an intensive care facility can be expensive, with... Read More
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Placenta Assessment and Examination
February 14, 2005
The examination of a well-preserved placenta adds value to a post-partum checkup. "What clients can do to help us is the timeliness of placental examination," he added. "There is little you can draw from a placenta that has been exhumed from beneath... Read More
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Placentitis--General Information
February 14, 2005
The single most important cause of premature delivery of a foal is placentitis. It accounts for nearly one-third of late-term abortions and fetal mortality in the first day of life.... Read More
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Placentitis--Placental and Post-Mortem Examination
February 14, 2005
Performance of a thorough placental examination, he said, requires a basic understanding of placental anatomy and some familiarity with the gross features found in a normal placenta.... Read More
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Placentitis--Caring for the Foals
February 14, 2005
During the foaling season, Bain said, veterinarians are frequently called upon to deal with a foal that is the product of a mare with placentitis. These foals, he said, can range from being extremely early--300 days--with small size and organ functio... Read More
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Australian Mystery Disease
November 29, 2004
Reports have been circulating that there is a disease similar to mare reproductive loss syndrome (MRLS) occurring in Australia. In a correspondence, Nigel Perkins, BVSc, MS, Dipl. ACT, FACVSc, of the private consulting firm AusVet Animal Health... Read More
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Open Mares
March 01, 2004
There are few occurrences in the equine world more frustrating and disappointing than to breed for that foal of your dreams and have the mare come up empty. Unfortunately, this happens frequently and the reasons are many and varied--ranging all... Read More
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Equine Placenta Workshop: Placentitis
December 12, 2003
Mats Troedsson, DVM, Dipl. ACT, University of Florida (with co-author Walter Zent, DVM, of Lexington, Ky.), discussed clinical ultrasound in evaluation of the equine placenta to identify and treat mares with placentitis. He said placentitis is a... Read More
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Equine Placenta and Possible Problems
December 08, 2003
A two-day exclusive gathering of leading reproductive researchers and practitioners from around the world convened at the Maxwell H. Gluck Equine Research Center in Lexington, Ky., Dec. 5-6, to discuss the equine placenta. From the evolutionary... Read More
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No Live Foal Guarantees
February 01, 2003
Subconsciously, you've been holding your breath for months. From the moment your mare was confirmed in foal, it's been a tense waiting game. And although she will be foaling soon, you know a healthy foal is still anything but a given. Between... Read More
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Mare Milking Early
August 01, 2002
I have a Paso Fino mare whose due date is three months away and her milk bag is full, hot, and dripping very white milk. She has been waxed over for about a week now, but thankfully she seems to be in no distress. I can find no one with this... Read More
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Placentitis-Causing Bacterium Gets Name
January 15, 2002
Each year throughout the United States, mares lose their pregnancies due to placentitis or an infection in the placenta. Placentitis causes lesions in the placenta, which provides nourishment from the mare to the fetus. When that nourishment is... Read More
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Unusual Placentitis Cases Decrease
November 02, 2001
The cases of nocardioform placentitis in Central Kentucky fell from 144 cases during the 1999 foaling season to 48 in 2000, according to a report in Equine Disease Quarterly, a publication funded by Underwriters At Lloyd's of London,... Read More
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Mare Milking Early
Q. I have a Paso Fino mare whose due date is three months away and her milk bag is full, hot, and dripping very white milk. She has been waxed over for about a week now, but thankfully she seems to be in no distress. I can find no one with this experience so I am asking for any advice I can get. I am concerned about many things. Will she go full-term? Will she have lost all her colostrum?
