COLAPSO TRAQUEAL EM PÔNEI: RELATO DE CASO

Abstract

Collapse is one of the conditions of upper airway obstruction caused by sagging and flattening of the cartilaginous rings. The objective of the present study was to report a case of tracheal collapse in a pony. A female, pony, 16 years old, was attended at the clinic of large animals of the Federal University of Paraíba, with a history of respiratory noise, that exacerbate during exercise, animal had been purchased a few days ago by the current owner. During the general physical examination it was observed that it was a upper respiratory respiratory change, when palpating the cervical trachea was palpated an irregularity in the distal portion of the cervical trachea. The animal was submitted to cervical radiography and endoscopy, due to the changes observed in the images, a grade 3 tracheal collapse was confirmed, one of the causes of respiratory distress in horses. The clinical examination showed characteristic signals such as an inspiratory dyspnea associated respiratory noise-shaped characteristic of the disease associated with radiography and endoscopy proved where the decrease of the lumen and to be essential for the diagnosis of tracheal collapse.