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Toxicologic Disorders, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice
- 1st Edition, Volume 40-1 - March 11, 2024
- Editor: Megan C. Romano
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 2 1 4 7 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 2 1 4 8 - 7
In this issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice, guest editor Dr. Megan Romano brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Toxicologic Disorders… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice, guest editor Dr. Megan Romano brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Toxicologic Disorders. Top experts in the field discuss current diagnosis and treatment recommendations for the most common toxicologic causes of disease in equines in North America, including updated information on toxic principles/mechanisms, analytical confirmation, and treatment recommendations. This issue brings more awareness to ABVT-boarded toxicologists and the field, as well.
- Contains 15 relevant, practice-oriented topics including postmortem examination in suspected poisoning cases; industrial and agricultural toxicants; mycotoxins; rodenticides; toxic myopathy plants (box elder, white snakeroot, and rayless goldenrod); other toxic plants; and more.
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on toxicologic disorders, 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
- Investigation and diagnostic approaches
- Investigative and Diagnostic Toxicology and Feed-Related Outbreaks
- Key points
- Introduction/background
- Necropsy and guidelines for sampling
- Reporting a feed complaint
- Discussion: historical incidents of feed-related poisoning in horses
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Diagnostic Pathology of Equine Toxicoses
- Key points
- Introduction
- External examination
- Internal examination
- Sample collection
- Clinics care points
- Plants
- Range and Pasture Plants Likely to Poison Horses
- Key points
- Nitrotoxins
- Trifolium hybridum (alsike clover)
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Plants Causing Toxic Myopathies
- Key points
- Introduction to plants associated with toxic myopathies
- Seasonal pasture myopathy/atypical myopathy—introduction/background
- Clinical aspects of seasonal pasture myopathy/atypical myopathy
- White snakeroot and rayless goldenrod—introduction/background
- Clinical aspects of white snakeroot/rayless goldenrod intoxications in horses
- Treatment
- Prevention
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Toxic Garden and Landscaping Plants
- Key points
- Introduction
- Yew (Taxus SPP.)
- Oleander and other cardiac glycoside-containing plants
- Rhododendrons and other grayanotoxin (ericaceous diterpenoid)-containing plants
- Clinics care points
- Pyrogallol Toxicosis in Horses
- Key points
- Introduction
- History
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Other biotoxins (mycotoxins, cantharidin, cyanobacteria, and snake envenomations)
- Equine Mycotoxins
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Toxigenic Endophyte–Infected Tall Fescue and Ergot Alkaloids
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary/Clinics care points
- Cantharidin
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Blue Green Algae
- Key points
- Introduction
- Freshwater toxins
- Clinical signs
- Diagnostics
- Treatment
- Control
- Case study summary
- Clinics care points
- Snake Envenomation
- Key points
- Introduction
- North American venomous snakes
- Clinical signs of envenomation
- Emergency field treatment
- Diagnostic testing
- In-hospital treatment
- Prognosis
- Prevention
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Other toxicants
- Therapeutic Medications and Illicit Medications and Supplements
- Key points
- Therapeutic medications
- Discussion
- Illicit medications and supplements
- Discussion
- Ionophores
- Key points
- Introduction
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Industrial and Agricultural Toxicants
- Key points
- Introduction
- Anhydrous ammonia
- Ethylene glycol
- Fertilizers
- Metals
- Pesticides
- Propylene glycol
- Clinics care points
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 40-1
- Published: March 11, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443121470
- eBook ISBN: 9780443121487
MR
Megan C. Romano
Affiliations and expertise
University of Kentucky Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory