Comparison of efficacy and tolerability of isoflupredone and dexamethasone in the treatment of horses affected with recurrent airway obstruction ('heaves')

Equine Veterinary Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 419-424

  Picandet, V ^a   Leguillette R ^a,b   Lavoie, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adrenal suppression; Dexamethasone; Heaves; Horse; Hypokalaemia; Isoflupredone; Lung function

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; DEXAMETHASONE; ELECTROLYTE; HYDROCORTISONE; ISOFLUPREDONE ACETATE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BIORINIL; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FLUPREDNISOLONE;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; EVALUATION; HEMATOLOGY; HORSE DISEASE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HORSE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; FLUPREDNISOLONE; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0242303700     PISSN: 04251644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2746/042516403776014208     Document Type: Article

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