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Volume 15 (3): 229-238, 2011. Slightly redacted 2017.
Clinical and
geometrical assessment of wound healing in thoroughbred and Caspian horses
Seyed Mehdi Ghamsari1*(DVM, PhD), Omid Azari2(DVM,
PhD), Mohammad Mehdi Dehghan1(DVM, PhD)
1Department of Clinical Science
(s), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, 2Faculty of Veterinary
Medicine, Shahid Bahonar
University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran.
ABSTRACT
Ghamsari SM, Azari O, Dehghan MM., Clinical and geometrical assessment of wound
healing in thoroughbred and Caspian horses, Onl J Vet
Res., 15 (3): 229-238, 2011. The healing of
extensive and deep body wounds in horses occurs remarkably well and is rarely complicated.
In contrast, limb wound healing is associated with species-specific problems,
such as exuberant granulation tissue. Further, wounds on the limb and body of
ponies heal much faster and much favorably than the same wounds in horses. Some
investigators believe that this variation in wound healing of horses and ponies
is due to difference in body size, while some others believe in role of genetic
discrepancy in this regard. The aim of this study was to investigate the
differences in second- intention wound healing between Caspian miniature horses
and thoroughbred horses and between body and limb wounds. Full thickness,
rectangular (20×35 mm) skin
wounds were created on the lateral aspect of left and right metacarpi and also
both sides of neck in 4 mixed thoroughbred and 4 Caspian horses. Wound healing
process was compared between limb and neck wounds and also between horses and
Caspian horses by clinical and geometrical assessments. The neck wounds were
evaluated for 5 weeks and limb wounds for 12 weeks. The results revealed that
there were no significant differences in second–intention wound healing pattern
between thoroughbred and Caspian horses. The neck wounds healed much faster and
in better condition than the limb wound both in Caspian and in thoroughbred
horses. Based on results of this study, it was concluded that larger limb size
of horses is not important factor, while racial characteristics genetic plays
major role in wound healing in horses.
Keywords: Horse, Caspian miniature, Thoroughbred, Wound healing,
Limb, Neck
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