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Chapter 2 Draft horses, mules, and donkeys
Chapter 3 Gastrointestinal system
3.1 The Association between Nutrition and Colic
3.1.1 Feeds and Colic: Pastures
3.1.2 Feeds and Colic: Dried Forages
3.1.3 Feeds and Colic: Concentrates
3.1.4 General Practices to Prevent Colic
3.2 Nutritional Plans for Horses with Colic
3.2.1 Identifying Nutritional Status
3.2.2 Nutritional Requirements of Horses with Colic
3.3 Routes for Feeding Horses Recovering from Colic
3.3.2 Supportive Enteral Nutrition
3.3.3 Parenteral Nutrition
3.4 Diets for Specific Diseases
3.4.1 Uncomplicated Colic
3.4.2 Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome
3.4.3 Duodenitis/Proximal Jejunitis
3.4.4 Small Intestinal Strangulation
3.4.5 Ileal Impaction (Nonstrangulating Small Intestinal Obstruction)
3.4.6 Ascending (Large) Colon Impactions
3.4.8 Enteroliths and Fecaliths
3.4.9 Ascending Colon Displacement
3.4.10 Ascending Colon Volvulus (Large Colon Torsion)
3.4.12 Cecocecal and Cecocolic Intussusception
3.4.13 Descending (Small) Colon Obstructions
3.4.14 Descending (Small) Colon Strangulations
Chapter 4 Muscular system
4.1 Myopathies Associated with Nutritional Deficiencies
4.1.1 Nutritional Myodegeneration due to Selenium Deficiency
4.1.2 Equine Motor Neuron Disease and Vitamin E Deficiency
4.1.3 Vitamin E Deficient Myopathy
4.1.4 Sporadic Exertional Rhabdomyolysis
4.2.1 Chronic Forms of Exertional Rhabdomyolysis
4.2.2 Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy
4.2.3 Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis
Chapter 5 Endocrine system
5.1 Equine Metabolic Syndrome
5.1.1 Definition of Equine Metabolic Syndrome
5.1.3 Species, Age, and Sex Predisposition
5.1.4 Genetics and Breed Predisposition
5.1.6 Geography and Seasonality
5.1.7 Associated Conditions and Disorders
5.1.8 Clinical Presentation
5.1.11 Possible Complications of Treatment or of the Disease Process
5.1.12 Recommended Monitoring
5.1.13 Prognosis and Outcome
5.2 Feeding Horses with Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction
5.2.1 Horses with Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction and Adequate Body Condition
5.2.2 Obese Horses with Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction
5.2.3 Horses with Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction and Thin Body Condition or Horses with PPID that are in Work
5.3 Pearls and Considerations
5.3.2 Veterinary Technician Tips
Chapter 6 Respiratory system
6.1 Effects of Inhaled Dust and Potential Aeroallergens on Equine Respiratory Disease
6.2 Respirable Dust Deposition in the Airways
6.3 Effects of Soaking Hay
6.4 Effects of Steam Treating Hay
6.5 Feeding Forage Alternatives
6.6 Exercise-Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhage
6.7 Acute Interstitial Pneumonia
Chapter 7 Neurologic system
7.1 Cervical Vertebral Malformation
7.4 Equine Degenerative Myelopathy and Neuroaxonal Dystrophy
7.5 Equine Motor Neuron Disease
7.6 Effect of Form and Dose of Vitamin E on Serum and Cerebrospinal Fluid Concentrations
8.1.2 Mechanism of Action
8.1.3 Toxicity and Clinical Signs
8.1.4 Reproductive and Developmental Effects
8.2.2 Mechanism of Action
8.2.3 Toxicity and Clinical Signs
8.3.1 Mechanism of Action
8.3.2 Toxicity and Clinical Signs
8.5.1 Toxicity and Clinical Signs
8.6.2 Mechanism of Action
8.6.3 Toxicity and Clinical Signs
Chapter 9 Poisonous plants
9.1 Excessive Salivation Induced by Plants
9.2 Colic and Diarrhea-Inducing Plants
9.2.1 Horse Chestnut or Buckeye
9.2.2 Field Bindweed (Morning Glory)
9.2.8 Jimson Weed, Potato, and Tomato
9.2.9 Kentucky Coffee Tree
9.3 Photodermatitis-Inducing Plants
9.3.1 Primary Photosensitization
9.3.2 Secondary Photosensitization
9.3.3 Liver Disease-Inducing Plants
9.4 Neurologic Disease-Inducing Plants
9.4.2 Locoweeds and Milkvetches
9.4.3 Milkvetch Neurotoxicosis
9.4.4 Yellow Star Thistle and Russian Knapweed
9.4.6 White Snakeroot and Crofton, Jimmy, or Burrow Weeds
9.4.8 Johnsongrass and Sudangrass
9.5 Lameness and Muscle Weakness‐Inducing Plants
9.5.3 Coffee Weed or Coffee Senna
9.6 Plant-Induced Calcinosis
9.6.1 Day-Blooming Jessamine
9.7.1 Causes of Selenium Toxicosis
9.7.2 Two-Grooved Milkvetch (Astragalus bisulcatus)
9.7.3 False Golden Weed (Oonopsis species)
9.7.4 Woody Aster (Xylorhiza glabriuscula)
9.7.5 Prince’s Plume (Stanleya pinnata)
9.7.6 White Prairie Aster (Aster falcatus)
9.7.7 Broom, Turpentine, Snake, or Match Weed (Gutierrezia sarothrae)
9.7.8 Gumweed or resinweed (Grindelia spp.)
9.7.9 Saltbush (Atriplex spp.)
9.7.10 Indian Paintbrush (Castilleja spp.)
9.7.11 Beard Tongue (Penstemon spp.)
9.7.12 Effects of Acute Selenium Toxicosis
9.7.13 Effects of Chronic Selenium Toxicosis
9.7.14 Diagnosis of Selenium Toxicosis
9.8 Anemia-Inducing Plants
9.8.3 Spoiled Sweet Clover
9.10 Sudden Death-Inducing Plants
9.10.1 Cyanide-Induced Sudden Death
9.10.2 Toxicity of Cyanogenic Glycosides
9.10.3 Serviceberry or Saskatoon berry (Amelanchier alnifolia)
9.10.4 Wild Blue Flax (Linum spp.)
9.10.5 Western Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana)
9.10.6 Elderberry (Sambuccus spp.)
9.10.8 Arrow grass or goose grass (Triglochin spp.)
9.10.9 Clinical Effects and Diagnosis of Acute Cyanide Poisoning
9.10.10 Treatment of Acute Cyanide Poisoning
9.10.11 Cardiac Glycoside-Induced Sudden Death
Nutritional Management of Equine Diseases and Special Cases
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