Lorena Battistin, Fabrício Moreira Cerri, Marcos Jun Watanabe, Regina Kiomi Takahira, Márcio Garcia Ribeiro, Noeme Sousa Rocha, José Paes de Oliveira-Filho, Alexandre Secorun Borges, Rogério Martins Amorim
The clinical findings of pleural empyema in six horses were retrospectively studied using epidemiological, clinical pathology, microbiological, ultrasound and poat mortem data. The clinical findings included tachycardia (n=3/6), tachypnea (n=6/6), cyanotic mucosa (n=2/6), hyperthermia (n=4/6), inspiratory or mixed dyspnea (n=6/6), presence of fluid and/or pleural rubbing (n=2/6) and coarse crackling on auscultation (n=4/6). Horses demonstrated leukocytosis (16.22 × 103/µL) with neutrophilia (12...
August 27, 2023: Journal of Equine Veterinary Science