Muscle Disorders of Horses, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice
- 1st Edition, Volume 41-1 - March 18, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Stephanie Valberg, Erica McKenzie
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 3 1 6 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 9 3 1 7 - 7
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice, guest editors Drs. Erica McKenzie and Stephanie Valberg bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Muscle Disorders of Horses. Top experts in the field discuss all major equine muscle disorders, covering the current state of knowledge about their pathophysiology, diagnosis, management, and treatment. This issue is authored by global experts in these topics, representing a rare collation of their collective expertise.
- Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including genetics of equine myopathies; disorders of muscle tone and mass; myosin heavy chain myopathy and immune mediated muscle disorders; sporadic and recurrent exertional rhabdomyolysis; traumatic muscle injuries; and more
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on muscle disorders of horses, offering actionable insights for clinical practice
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews
Equine Veterinarians
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- Clinical Examination of the Muscle System
- Key points
- Introduction
- Obtaining an effective clinical history
- Performing the examination
- Clinical pathology
- Clinics care points
- Genetics of Muscle Disease
- Key points
- Introduction
- Equine muscle disorders with DNA tests
- Inherited equine muscle disorders with ongoing research efforts
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Skeletal Muscle Biopsy
- Key points
- Introduction
- Selection of a muscle to biopsy
- Biopsy technique
- Sample preparation for shipping samples
- Laboratory preparation and analysis
- Interpretation of histopathology
- Clinics care points
- Disorders of Muscle Mass and Tone
- Key points
- Introduction
- Muscle atrophy
- Muscle tone disorders
- Myotonic disorders
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Myosin Heavy Chain Myopathy and Immune-Mediated Muscle Disorders
- Key points
- Introduction
- Myosin heavy chain myopathy
- Myosin heavy chain myopathy immune-mediated myositis
- Myosin heavy chain myopathy and calciphylaxis
- Myosin heavy chain myopathy nonexertional rhabdomyolysis
- Prevention of myosin heavy chain myopathy episodes
- Infarctive purpura hemorrhagica
- Uncharacterized immune-mediated Muscle disorders
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Vitamin E and Selenium-Related Manifestations of Muscle Disease
- Key points
- Introduction
- Vitamin E requirements
- Vitamin E assessment
- Vitamin E deficiency
- Vitamin E supplementation
- Other considerations
- Selenium requirements
- Selenium deficiency
- Diagnosis of selenium deficiency
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- Nonexertional Rhabdomyolysis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Toxic causes of nonexertional rhabdomyolysis
- Other plants causing nonexertional rhabdomyolysis
- Chemical causes of nonexertional rhabdomyolysis
- Metabolic causes of nonexertional rhabdomyolysis
- Inflammatory causes of nonexertional rhabdomyolysis
- Nutritional causes
- Disclosures
- Clinics care points
- Sporadic and Recurrent Exertional Rhabdomyolysis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Clinical signs of exertional rhabdomyolysis
- Treatment of acute rhabdomyolysis
- Management
- Malignant hyperthermia
- Clinics care points
- Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy
- Key points
- Introduction/history/background
- Type 1 polysaccharide storage myopathy
- Type 2 polysaccharide storage myopathy
- Treatment and management of PSSM
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- Myofibrillar Myopathy
- Key points
- Introduction
- Myofibrillar myopathy in Arabians
- Myofibrillar myopathy in warmbloods
- Clinics care points
- The Role of Nutrition in Managing Muscle Disorders
- Key points
- Introduction
- Management of chronic exertional muscle disorders
- Feeding programs for horses with myopathies
- Exertional rhabdomyolysis
- Exertional myopathies
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Anesthesia and Myopathies of Horses
- Key points
- Introduction
- Equine anesthetic-associated myopathy
- Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis
- Malignant hyperthermia
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Traumatic Muscle Injuries
- Key points
- Introduction
- General response of muscle to intrinsic trauma: damage and healing
- Exercise-induced muscle enzyme release
- Exercise-induced muscle damage
- Muscle injury
- Treatment of intrinsic traumatic muscle injury
- Prevention of traumatic muscle injury
- Clinics care points
- Muscle Rehabilitation Techniques and Prevention of Injury
- Key points
- Introduction
- Muscle rehabilitation techniques
- Inflammatory phase rehabilitation
- Regenerative phase rehabilitation
- Remodeling phase rehabilitation
- Prevention of muscle injury/re-injury
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Therapeutic Exercises for Rehabilitation of Muscle Injury
- Key points
- Introduction
- Inflammatory phase therapeutic exercises
- Regenerative phase therapeutic exercises
- Remodeling phase rehabilitation
- Clinics care points
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 41-1
- Published: March 18, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443293160
- eBook ISBN: 9780443293177
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Stephanie Valberg
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, USAEM
Erica McKenzie
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Large Animal Internal Medicine, Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA