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My 27 year old Arab mare had problems moving from behind saturday,then she planted herself and could not move.Vet queried tie up then thought it could be laminitis so went down that route.With blood results and re examination it looks like the original diagnosis.Her muscle enzymes were of the scale but no laminitic markers.Luckily the initial management is the same,box rest.Some jaundice noticed in her gums so more bloods today to check LFT'S.Can't yet get a urine sample as she refuses to oblige.Anyone with any experience of this,particularly in the older horse/
 
I have no direct experience of anything similar, but I've been reading up on muscle diseases in horses because my gang appear to have some kind of muscle problem going on (best guess selenium deficiency at the moment).

Anyway, in the reading up that I've been doing, I came across this article: A review of equine muscle disorders in horses by M Aleman, and found that really helpful, not least the list of various muscle diseases.

I'm sure it's going to be helpful to you if you can work out why the tying-up happened. Was there something out of the ordinary that day or preceding days? Anything different stresswise, workloadwise or dietwise?

Here's the link to that review: http://maquette.respe.net/system/files/documents_equine_muscle_disorders.pdf

This Minnesota neuromuscular laboratory website is also really good for muscle stuff. http://www.cvm.umn.edu/umec/lab/home.html

I also found this article quite useful, talking about management of tying-up in sports horses, by Stephanie Valberg: http://www.ker.com/library/proceedings/10/The Management of Tying-Up in Sport Horses.pdf

Out of interest, what were the 3 muscle enzyme levels (AST, CK and LDH)? Their numerical value may help you in narrowing down what the cause might be.

Sarah
 
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