The quest for efficient production of pork protein to be able to feed a growing population is critical for the pork industry. A disease that causes a large impact on cost and efficiency of production is lameness. This disease is like a stealthy thief. The losses from this disease often go unnoticed or recognized. The consequences are larger in proportion than most producers are aware. Lameness ...

Lameness and lesions to the skin and claws of sows in group housing are commonly occurring indicators of reduced welfare. Typically, these problems are more common in group housing than in individual housing systems. Group management type (dynamic versus static) and stage of gestation influence the behavior of the animals, which in turn influences the occurrence of these problems. The present s...

Abstract Caprine Arthritis-Encephalitis Virus Infection was presented with clinical , pathological, and molecular findings in dairy goats from a breeding unit Turkey. According to history, 50 of 700 kids showed the signs including anorexia, mastitis, swelling joints, lameness, dyspnea head pressing past 2 months. Fifteen 6 animals were examined clinically pathologically, respectively. Clinical ...

Lameness in sows is an emerging disease condition with major effects on animal welfare and economics. Yet the direct impact on reproduction results remains unclear. The present field study investigated the impact of lameness and claw lesions throughout the reproductive cycle on (re)production results of sows. In five farms, a total of 491 group-housed sows were followed up for a period of one r...

objective: to evaluate the effect of advance trauma life support (atls®) training on general surgery residents clinical reasoning skills using the national boards-style objective structured clinical examination (osce). methods: this cross-sectional single-center study was conducted in shiraz university of medical sciences including 51 surgery residents that participated in a mandatory national ...

OBJECTIVE To report a novel method of treating femoro-patellar instability in association with severe femoro-patellar osteoarthritis, by substituting the femoral trochlear with a patellar groove replacement prosthesis. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective case series. METHODS Preoperative lameness was scored from 0-4, and radiographic studies including standard positions for patellar luxation were ob...

Introduction The vast majority of lameness’s that occur in the horse originate in the foot. Unfortunately the horny hoof capsule severely limits the assessment of the internal structures of the foot. Clinical examination is an essential part of any lameness examination and frequently directs the clinician to an area that is suspected as the source of pain. However, diagnostic analgesia is neces...

REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY There are no peer reviewed, blinded controlled studies regarding the skeletal analgesic efficacy of intramuscularly administered meperidine in horses. OBJECTIVES Using an adjustable heart bar shoe model of equine foot pain, the objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that meperidine (pethidine) administered intramuscularly would prove more efficacious i...

BACKGROUND Matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) are hypothesized to degrade structurally important components of the laminar extracellular matrix (ECM) in horses with laminitis. OBJECTIVE To compare levels of expression of stromelysin-1 (MMP-3), collagenases (MMP-1, -13), and membrane type-MMPs (MMP-14, -15, -16), and the distribution of their ECM substrates, in laminae of healthy horses and horse...

Polydactyly is the congenital presence of one or more extra digits. The extra digit often does not contain a full complement of bones. Unilateral syndactyly and polydactyl mixed-breed dog was used as a case study. A three-month old unvaccinated intact female mixed breed dog weighing 8 kg, presented with a deformity of the left forepaw was used for this study. The deformity had been present sinc...