Avaliação clínico-enzimática de miopatias degenerativas em equinos atendidos no Hospital Veterinário / CSTR / UFCG, no período de janeiro/2005 a outubro/2014.

Abstract

Study conducted from January 2005 to October 2014, through literature review and on-site data collection and medical records filed in Medical Clinics Department of Large Animal Veterinary Hospital (HV) of the Health Center and Rural Technology (CSTR) at the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), with the objective to study degenerative myopathy in horses and through practical observations, the possibility of identifying regional inter-related factors and evaluate diagnostic, therapeutic and prophylactic effective resources. We evaluated 1.224 horses, crossbred and purebred of Quarter Horses, of both sexs, aged from two to thirteen, founded the city of Patos-PB and surrounding, including the states of Rio Grande do Norte and Pernambuco. A sample of ten instances of myopathy effort, of which a discrete predominance of males was recorded (six) and the Quarter Horse (four), and these checks diagnosed in horses conditioned and trained to rodeos, explored in semi-intensive management system or extensive, submitted to diet consists concentrate, based on wheat bran and corn, feed and forage industrialized consisting of native pasture grasses, mainly elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum) grass grass (Cynodon spp) and commercial hay. Concluding that the equine degenerative myopathy is a common condition of feed management and erroneous conditioning, consequently, myopathy effort the higher incidence of complications and that constitute effective diagnostic and therapeutic resources adopted in HV, Federal University of Campina Grande.