Surgical management of postcastration spermatic cord stump infection in horses: A retrospective study of 23 cases.

Objective: To report the surgical management and the short- and long-term follow-up of postcastration spermatic cord infection in horses.

Study Design: Retrospective case series.

Animals: Twenty-three client-owned horses.

Clinical features, treatment, and outcome in goats with thymomas: 13 cases (1990-2014).

OBJECTIVE To determine the anatomic location and clinical signs of thymoma in goats and long-term outcomes in a subset of goats treated by tumor excision. DESIGN Retrospective case series. ANIMALS 13 goats with a histologic diagnosis of thymoma at the Cornell University Hospital for Animals between 1990 and 2014.

Surgical treatment of 4 horses for cryptorchidism caused by failure of regression of the cranial suspensory ligament of the testis.

Objective: To report surgical management of 4 horses with cryptorchidism caused by failure of regression of the cranial suspensory ligament (CSL).

Study Design: Retrospective case series.

Animals: Cryptorchid horses (n = 4).

Effect of a tart cherry juice blend on exercise-induced muscle damage in horses.

Objective: To evaluate whether administering a tart cherry juice blend (TCJB) prior to exercise would reduce skeletal and cardiac muscle damage by decreasing the inflammatory and oxidative stress response to exercise in horses.

Animals: 6 horses.

Procedures: Horses were randomly allocated into 2 groups in a crossover study with a 2-week washout period and orally administered either TCJB or a placebo solution (1.

Activity of selected rostral and caudal hyoid muscles in clinically normal horses during strenuous exercise.

Objective: To determine the phase and quantitate the electromyographic (EMG) activity of the genioglossus, geniohyoideus, hyoepiglotticus, omohyoideus, sternohyoideus, sternothyroideus, and thyrohyoideus muscles of clinically normal horses during strenuous exercise.

Animals: 7 clinically normal adult horses (2 Thoroughbreds and 5 Standardbreds).

Procedures: Bipolar electrodes were surgically implanted in the aforementioned muscles, and horses were subjected to an incremental exercise test on a high-speed treadmill.

A comparison of laryngoplasty and modified partial arytenoidectomy as treatments for laryngeal hemiplegia in exercising horses.

Objective: To compare upper airway mechanics, arterial blood gases, and tracheal contamination in horses with induced left laryngeal hemiplegia (recurrent laryngeal neuropathy [RLN]) treated by laryngoplasty/vocal cordectomy (LPVC) or modified partial arytenoidectomy (MPA).

Study Design: Repeated measures under the following conditions: Control, RLN, LPVC, and MPA.

Animals: Six horses.

Umbilical herniorrhaphy in a juvenile Asian elephant (Elephas maximus).

An umbilical hernia was diagnosed in a 2-wk-old Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) by physical and ultrasonographic examinations. Umbilical herniorrhaphy was elected because the defect was large (approximately 7 cm long and 10 cm deep) and could potentially lead to incarceration of an intestinal loop. General anesthesia was induced with a combination of ketamine, xylazine, and diazepam and maintained with isoflurane in oxygen.

Sound signature for identification and quantification of upper airway disease in horses.

Objective: To investigate whether upper airway sounds of horses exercising with laryngeal hemiplegia and alar fold paralysis have distinct sound characteristics, compared with unaffected horses.

Animals: 6 mature horses.

Procedure: Upper airway sounds were recorded in horses exercising on a high-speed treadmill at maximum heart rate (HR(MAX)) under 3 treatment conditions (ie, normal upper airway function [control condition], and after induction of left laryngeal hemiplegia or bilateral alar fold paralysis) in a randomized crossover design.

Clinical assessment and outcome of three techniques for jejunal resection and anastomosis in horses: 59 cases (1989-2000).

Objective: To compare postoperative complications, short- and long-term survival, and surgical times for hand-sewn end-to-end (EE), stapled functional end-to-end (FEE), and stapled side-to-side (SS) anastomotic techniques for jejunal resection in horses.

Design: Retrospective study.

Animals: 59 horses.