This is important in chronic laminitis simply because the disease rarely directly results in the patient s death that is without a prognosis.
Chronic laminitis prognosis.
Horses with distal descent sinking often have a hoof ring the same distance from the coronet the whole way around the hoof.
It is important to note that a horse with chronic laminitis can suffer another acute episode and he can also be prone to complications such as hoof abscesses and bruises due to thin soles or.
The clinical signs most commonly associated with chronic laminitis long hair that does not shed out in the summer weight problems over or underweight and other signs that many people and vets call cushing s disease.
It takes a minimum of 3 months for new divergent hoof rings to be seen following laminitis 1.
Chronic laminitis is defined as radiographic confirmation of displacement of the coffin bone.
Occasionally nerve blocks are necessary to localize.
Rings on the hoof wall from coronet to ground are an indicator of ongoing chronic endocrinopathic laminitis.
The type of displacement depends on the location and or severity of lamellar failure.
Displacement is further defined as rotation medial or lateral sinking horizontal plane laminitis and vertical sinking.
Perhaps the most difficult part of the clinical assessment is establishing a valid prognosis.
Horses with distal descent sinking often have a hoof ring the same distance from the coronet the whole way around the hoof.
The diagnosis of chronic laminitis is seldom a challenge because the gait and appearance of the foot are characteristic of the disease and radiographs usually remove all doubt.
The results in my practice are so far showing that laminitis is a disease with a good to excellent prognosis with 96 of horses returning to workat their current level or higher with a management program that is based around correcting the blood flow issues that occur within the laminitic foot.
Your laminitis survivor s true prognosis depends on how you manage him after the worst is over one of the hardest things to accept after a horse survives a nasty bout of laminitis is that the.
In my opinion these horses have altered glucose metabolism similar to that of human diabetics and not cushing s disease.
Occasionally nerve blocks are necessary to localize.
