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Thermographic Evaluation of Beating Process of Experimentally Induced Infectious Arthritis in Horses  

Yang Young-Jin (Korea racing association)
Nam Tchi-Chou (College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University)
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Journal of Veterinary Clinics / v.23, no.1, 2006 , pp. 22-30 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was carried out to assess the usefulness of thermography for diagnosis and healing process of musculoskeletal disorder in horses. Horses with experimentally induced infectious arthritis were treated with bee venom or antibiotics for 5 weeks from 24 hours after inoculation of Staphylococcus aureus, the effectiveness of the 2 therapeutic drugs treatment was similar to each other. Thermographic evaluation was similar to any other tests, because the thermal pattern tend to return to normal with declining similar to those of clinical signs, laboratory experiments and healing of the lesion. This ability to assess inflammatory change noninvasively make thermography an ideal imaging tool to aid in the diagnosis of certain lameness condition or musculoskeletal disease in horses. These results suggested that thermographic evaluation in horses with musculoskeletal disorders were useful for diagnosis and helpful for monitoring of healing process.
Keywords
thermographic evaluation; horse; lameness diagnosis; infecctious arthritis; healing process;
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