Misty Valley Equine is the name of my veterinary practice. The vast majority of my practice is devoted to diagnosing and treating performance horse lameness issues.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Case of the week 10-11-06

What is this condition called/what's wrong with this horse? Posted by Picasa

posted by mistyvalley @ 2:03 PM  

7 Comments:

  • At 5:16 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Blown Suspensories

     

  • At 10:51 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Not "blown" suspensories, this is a classic presentation of what has been know as DSLD or Degenerative Suspensory Ligament Desmitis. More recently, it has been renamed ESPA for Equine Systemic Proteoglycan Accumulation -- to better represent what's really going on. It's not a suspensory ligament issue, acutally it's a disorder of all connective tissue in the affected horse's body. It can manifest in many seemingly unrelated ways; making it hard to diagnose in many early cases. By the time a horse has the degree of degeneration that is indicated by this photo, it is in a very advanced state. Please see the website at: www.dsldequine.info
    and the Yahoo groups site (great info from members and files) at: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/DSLD-equine/ Terry Barrall, Salem OR

     

  • At 3:38 AM, Blogger sgolshani said…

    answer: dsld
    http://dsldequine.info/
    information for diagnosis, care, mangement, case histories, and special vet pages

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DSLD-equine/
    group message board for exchange of information, raising awareness

    http://www.freewebs.com/dsldhorse/index.htm
    newsletter

    http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1746-6148-2-12.pdf Degenerative suspensory ligament desmitis as a systemic disorder characterized by proteoglycan accumulation. This is the latest published findings by University of Georgia's Dr Halper and team.

     

  • At 7:01 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    This horse looks like a dsld horse.
    For more information see
    http://www.freewebs.com/dsldhorse/index.htm

    there is an excellent chat line for this type of problem:
    dsld-equine@yahoo.com

    Mary D/

     

  • At 12:25 PM, Blogger Unknown said…

    Looks like it could be DSLD/ESPA.

    http://www.freewebs.com/dsldhorse

     

  • At 4:07 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Absolutely looks like DSLD/ESPA. Do check out the pages listed by others before me, and learn about this disease. As a vet it is so very important to be aware that this is very real and is genetic, systemic, and affects many breeds.

     

  • At 8:50 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Dr: Do you have any comments on this?

    Thanks, Terry B

     

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