Racing performance of National Hunt thoroughbred racehorses after treatment of palatal dysfunction with a laryngeal tie-forward procedure and thermocautery of the soft palate with or without aryepiglottic folds resection
| Autor: | Anna-Maija Virtala, Milja J. Koskinen, Turlough P. McNally |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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medicine.medical_specialty 040301 veterinary sciences Cautery Epiglottis Resection 0403 veterinary science Cohort Studies Thermocautery Physical Conditioning Animal medicine Animals Clinical significance Horses Retrospective Studies General Veterinary Soft palate business.industry 0402 animal and dairy science Case-control study Retrospective cohort study 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences 040201 dairy & animal science United Kingdom Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Case-Control Studies Female Horse Diseases Larynx Palate Soft business Mouth Diseases After treatment Cohort study Sports |
| Zdroj: | Veterinary surgery : VSREFERENCES. 49(1) |
| ISSN: | 1532-950X |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE: To assess racing performance of National Hunt thoroughbred (NH) racehorses with a definite diagnosis of palatal dysfunction treated with a laryngeal tie‐forward procedure (LTF) and soft palate cautery (SPC) with or without transendoscopic laser excision of the aryepiglottic folds (TLEAF) and to determine correlation between performance measures. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. ANIMALS: National Hunt racehorses treated with LTF, SPC ± TLEAF (n = 44) and nonaffected controls (n = 88). METHODS: Performance was evaluated by using Racing Post ratings (RPR), race earnings (RE), and performance index (PIndex). Affected horses were compared with nonaffected horses. The effect of TLEAF and correlations between measures were analyzed. RESULTS: Racing Post rating, RE and PIndex improved by 50%, 26%, and 12% in treated, and by 50%, 39%, and 24% in control horses, respectively, when measurements were evaluated for the median of three presurgical and postsurgical races. Lower postsurgical performance was detected when five postsurgical races were compared with two presurgical races (P ≤ .03). The number of postsurgical earnings rated at zero was greater in treated horses than in control horses (P |
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