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  Exciting Advances in the Treatment of Recurrent Laryngeal Neuropathy

  A cervical nerve transplantation technique developed by Justin Perkins, Lecturer in Equine Surgery at the RVC, has shown promising results as a method of reinnervation of the larynx for horses with recurrent laryngeal neuropathy
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  Turning the Table – Computed Tomography of the Cervical Spine and Stifles in Horses

  The RVC Equine CT scanner is 10 cm wider than a standard CT, allowing us to image the entire cervical spine, often up to the level of the thoracic vertebrae and the limb up to and including the stifle.
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  The Distinctiveness of Colic in Ponies

  Ponies and miniature breeds are much more prone to development of hyperlipaemia secondary to disease and a negative energy balance. Many clinicians also feel that treatment of hyperlipaemia in ponies and miniature breeds is more difficult compared to horses, with animals not infrequently succumbing to the condition.
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  Are We Close to an Ataxia Detector?

  Ataxia is incoordination and can originate from the vestibular system, the cerebellum or the proprioceptive system, the latter primarily consisting of muscle-nerve stretch and feedback to the spinal cord and the brainstem.  By far the most common …
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  New Sarcoid Treatments

  RVC Equine was the first veterinary centre in the UK to offer electrochemotherapy (ECT) to treat sarcoids.
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  Gait Analysis

  RVC objective gait analysis system has substantial benefits. Orthopaedic examination and subsequent diagnostic work-up is a complex decision-making process reliant on observation of the horse under a variety of conditions.
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  Headshaking Treated by PENS

  Equine headshaking was successfully treated with a new treatment called percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (PENS) at the RVC
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  Farm Diagnostic Imaging by Transdisciplinary Team

  The ability of the RVC’s Farm Animal Clinical Centre (FACC) to undertake an increasing amount of diagnostic imaging on farms and in the referral clinical centre has greatly enhanced the service that can be offered to referring vets and clients.
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  Rapid Referral of Horse Caught on Fence

  A horse was treated at the RVC’s Equine Referral Hospital after becoming caught up in a fence, which left barbed wire and hedge material embedded in her wounds.
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  Donkeys are Not Little Horses!

  Michael Hewetson, Royal Veterinary Colllege Senior Lecturer in Equine Medicine, relates the case of a donkey with colic requiring a transdisciplinary approach