osteoarthrosis of the antebrachiocarpal joint of 7 riding horses骨关节病的antebrachiocarpal联合7骑马.pdfVIP

Acta vet. scand. 2001, 42, 429-434. Osteoarthrosis of the Antebrachiocarpal Joint of 7 Riding Horses By L-E. Magnusson1 and S. Ekman2 1 2 Noläng, Axvall, and Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Swedish University of Agri- cultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden. Magnusson L-E, Ekman S: Osteoarthrosis of the antebrachiocarpal joint of 7 rid- ing horses. Acta vet. scand. 2001, 42, 429-434. – Osteoarthrosis (OA) of the antebra- chiocarpal joint from 7 riding horses is described. The horses were old mares and de- veloped severe OA, with ankylosis in some of the joints. The lesions were bilateral, and the owners noticed the lameness in a late event. The cause of severe OA in these mares is not clear. The fact that OA was bilateral indicates that a single traumatic injury is un- likely as an etiologic factor. Considering the severe joint lesions it took long time before the horse-owners noticed the lameness. It is discussed if the threshold of pain is higher in the antebrachiocarpal joint compared with the middle carpal joint. Introduction Lameness originating from the carpal joints is velop in the antebrachiocarpal joint compared common in the racehorse, where excessive, to the middle carpal joint, in order to make clin- rapid and repetitive or inappropriate loading icians aware of this. We wanted to describe the and movement are thought to induce joint dam- clinical features of 7 riding horses with severe age (Bramlage et al. 1988). During the protrac- chronic OA of the antebrachiocarpal joints and tion phase the carpus is freely movable in an an- in some of these also describe the radiological terioposterior direction. The different joints and patholo