Spotlight on Lung and Guttural Pouch Diseases in Equine
A special issue of Veterinary Sciences (ISSN 2306-7381).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 6374
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Diseases of the upper and lower respiratory systems of adult horses, whether or not broadly contagious, are frequent and of medical importance for the following reasons: their potential severity, nosographic dismemberment to understand their etiology and pathogenesis, and the necessary development of reliable diagnostic means based on consensual procedures to assess their pathophysiology.
Regarding guttural pouches
With the necessary knowledge to explore means beyond endoscopy, we can go beyond endoscopic examination, it is essential to continue to explore: (i) developmental conditions of mycosis and its evolution after various surgical treatments aimed at preventing catastrophic bleeding; (ii) the effective treatments according to precise and evaluated procedures of the empyemas; (iii) understanding the eardrum and its best surgical management.
Regarding bronchopulmonary diseases
The clinician needs the perspective of the anatomical pathologist on the various non-infectious inflammatory conditions and the differential damage to the bronchial, bronchiolar and alveolar territory. They can then examine the diagnostic methods by adapting reliable and scientifically evaluated examination techniques to determine the resulting condition.
Understanding the pathogenesis of bronchopulmonary infections could make it possible to propose appropriate sampling techniques for the examination of infection. As in other species, the pathogenetic, clinical, and therapeutic differences of pleuro-pneumonia, infectious pneumonia (pneumonia), and non-infectious inflammatory pneumonia (pneumonitis) deserve a factual approach within the literatures.
A reflection should be carried out on the new denominations for non-infectious inflammations of the airways, whether allergic or not and accompanied by obstructive ventilatory disorder or not, in the hope that they have a real paradigmatic justification. Beyond that, an evidence-based medicine approach appears essential for better management of these conditions in terms of (i) diagnostic methods, (ii) the different types according to the categories of horses, (iii) the pathogenesis of these conditions, (iv) the development of reproducible protocols for diagnostic methods and (v) the different therapeutic protocols according to the phenotyping of these conditions by also reasoning on the quality of life of the affected and treated horses.
From all these data, retrospective multicenter studies on feedback from clinical practice, one or more anatomopathological observatories of these lung diseases, and prospective studies on the management protocols for these different diseases could be created.
Prof. Dr. Jean-Luc Cadoré
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- lung diseases
- guttural pouch diseases
- bronchopulmonary diseases
- equine
