Nutritional muscular dystrophy in a four-day-old Connemara foal

This report describes a four-day-old, full-term Connemara colt, presented for the evaluation of a progressive inability to rise unassisted. A diagnosis of nutritional muscular dystrophy was made based on muscular weakness, elevated muscle enzymes and low vitamin E, selenium and glutathione peroxidas...

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Autores principales: Katz, LM, O'Dwyer, S, Pollock, PJ
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3113793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21851729
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2046-0481-62-2-119
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description This report describes a four-day-old, full-term Connemara colt, presented for the evaluation of a progressive inability to rise unassisted. A diagnosis of nutritional muscular dystrophy was made based on muscular weakness, elevated muscle enzymes and low vitamin E, selenium and glutathione peroxidase activity. The foal was treated with intramuscular vitamin E-selenium and made a full recovery.
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spelling pubmed-31137932011-06-14 Nutritional muscular dystrophy in a four-day-old Connemara foal Katz, LM O'Dwyer, S Pollock, PJ Ir Vet J Case Report This report describes a four-day-old, full-term Connemara colt, presented for the evaluation of a progressive inability to rise unassisted. A diagnosis of nutritional muscular dystrophy was made based on muscular weakness, elevated muscle enzymes and low vitamin E, selenium and glutathione peroxidase activity. The foal was treated with intramuscular vitamin E-selenium and made a full recovery. BioMed Central 2009-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3113793/ /pubmed/21851729 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2046-0481-62-2-119 Text en
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title_fullStr Nutritional muscular dystrophy in a four-day-old Connemara foal
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title_short Nutritional muscular dystrophy in a four-day-old Connemara foal
title_sort nutritional muscular dystrophy in a four-day-old connemara foal
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3113793/
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