ASPECTOS CLÍNICO-IMAGINOLÓGICOS DA OSTEOARTRITE INTERFALANGEANA DISTAL EM UM EQUINO: RELATO DE CASO

Abstract

Osteoarthritis is one of the most common joints in horses. Most of the time is involved with the performance of equine athletes. Equine medicine has out by advances, absence of it, currently the most recent diagnosis is made by the association of clinical and radiographic examination. This work was elaborated with the objective of evaluating the clinical aspects and the application of the imaging methods in a case of horse osteoarthritis. A 10-year-old horse, a history of lameness for a period of approximately 3 months and one year prior to the institution of a prior contract for tendinitis, the initial complaint remained. After a clinical evaluation, the aid examination of the simple and contrast radiography reached the definitive diagnosis of osteoarthritis in the distal interphalangeal joint. Through this work it can be established that the profile of the patient affected by osteoarthritis suffers the influence of the profile of the most common population in the region, which is one of the diagnoses for the correction of the function and the analgesic block to confirm the lesion. In addition, the treatment proved to be effective, being essential the construction of the casqueamento and ferrageamento.