Management of hydrops amnion in a mare resulting in birth of a live foal

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 228, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1228-1233

  Christensen, Bruce W ^a   Troedsson, Mats H T ^a   Murchie, Tracy A ^b   Pozor, Margorzata A ^a   Macpherson, Margo L ^a   Estrada, Amara H ^a   Carrillo, Natalie A ^a   Mackay, Robert J ^a   Roberts, Gregory D ^a   Langlois, John ^c  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b WESTERN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c McIntosh Equine Practice PA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRENOGEST; FLUNIXIN MEGLUMINE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL WALL; ABORTION; AMNION; AMNION FLUID ANALYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHILDBIRTH; CONVALESCENCE; ECHOGRAPHY; EDEMA; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FETUS MEMBRANE; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HORSE; HYDROPS; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; LIMB DEFECT; NEWBORN DEATH; NONHUMAN; PALPATION; PASSIVE IMMUNIZATION; PLACENTA; PUERPERIUM; RARE DISEASE; STRESS; UTERUS; WEAKNESS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FETUS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; HYDROPS FETALIS; LIMB DEFORMITIES, CONGENITAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 33645979655     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.228.8.1228     Document Type: Article

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