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Guasco and Associates

We offer first opinion equine veterinary care with emphasis on sports medicine and performance issues.
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30/10/2024

Horses bought and sold!

Here all week fun times

06/10/2024

A bone sequestrum on the hind cannon bone of a horse. This is a piece of dead bone that separates mostly as the result of a trauma, as in this case. It dies off as the blood supply is damaged; the animal then picks it up as a foreign body and tries to expel it. Often these require surgical removal. But not in this case! The horse was sound, the wound was not discharging so we put the horse on antibiotics and let nature work its magic by resorbing the fragment little by little.

18/09/2024

🇮🇹🇳🇱🇬🇧 Italians at ISELP 🇬🇧🇳🇱🇮🇹

19/08/2024

💉🩸🏇From racing days to saving lives! 🏇🩸💉

This is our retired racehorse Alfie that I was kindly gifted by once his racing career was over. The original plan was to ride him ever so often but since I haven’t been on a horse for more than 15 years and I was probably gonna break many bones by attempting to saddle a racehorse, I thought he’d be a perfectly healthy blood donor, considering his lovely nature.

Alfie is portrayed here saving lives as he does best, having his blood collected which then processed by separating plasma from red blood cells. That takes quite a few hours, but then the plasma is transfused to a poorly horse, which is especially important when suffering from protein loss.

Sometimes horses need multiple transfusions or generally speaking a large volume of plasma.

Average horses have about 45 litres of blood - so they can donate a fair bit luckily.

Plasma transfusion is way more common to be seen in foals, when they don’t manage to suck enough colostrum (the first milk, which is fundamental for development of early immunity) and need a top up of healthy immunoglobulins right in their bloodstream. In such case we use specific plasma, supplied by , which is enriched to provide best neonatal immunity.

04/08/2024

Periocular sarcoids are generally a nightmare to treat but in this case we used Immunocidin which worked wonders! We expected to have to inject the mass 3 times, but 2 were enough!

Immunocidin is an emulsion of mycobacterial cell wall fractions that have been modified to reduce their toxic and allergic effects, but retain their antitumor activity. Immunocidin stimulates the activation of macrophages and thymic lymphocytes which kill tumor cells.
How do I know that? I just googled it! For once marketing matched the expectations!

27/06/2024

Cervical stenotic myelopathy, pretty severe sadly ☢️🚑🏇

If you are wondering what the random white spot is, just by our logo, it’s the microchip.

25/06/2024

A weird lesion which was identified following a trainer’s concern due to some swelling in a hind tendon of a horse in work. These are not foreign bodies but some old, historic calcifications in the SDFT of a hind limb, visible on both scans and x-rays, with no evidence of recent damage.
This must have happened a while before attending the horse, who knows when.
Anyway for once we delivered some good news as the horse could continue training as normal!

$🏇🚑😷Before and after a condylar fracture, tidy job as usual from Newmarket Equine Hospital 😷🚑🏇$

23/06/2024

🏇🚑😷Before and after a condylar fracture, tidy job as usual from Newmarket Equine Hospital 😷🚑🏇

$An uncommon injury in horses, a fracture of the distal border of the navicular bone in a hind leg. The horse had a lengt...$

23/06/2024

An uncommon injury in horses, a fracture of the distal border of the navicular bone in a hind leg.
The horse had a lengthy break, just conservative treatment (I.e., rest and rehab), recovered well, raced 20 times following injury, including being placed 11 times and winning twice!

Think positive!

23/06/2024

🥇 🏇 🏃‍♂️🥇Two different , two different programs, two different , two different types of fibers in action, two different types of muscle development, two different - vs

Both aiming for the same result - winning races! 🥇🏃‍♂️🏇🥇

28/04/2024

🏇💉🚑💰 🏆Well 2023-2024 season is over, well done to all the trainers and owners that trusted us with the care of their racehorses. Here is a quick recap, looks like we didn’t do too bad afterall 🏇💉🚑💰🏆

🧑‍⚖️ Doncaster May sale next, hols then we go round again 🧑‍⚖️

28/02/2024

A septic central tarsal bone of a that was diagnosed by , confirmed by and treated with intraosseous antibiotics.

This was a tricky one as the lesion was not apparent for a few days and there was only very mild swelling around the , and the foal was only intermittently lame. showed markers of infection.

Nevertheless antibiotics fixed her, she’s doing well and hopefully we’ve looked after another winner!

07/02/2024

☢️🦴 this is a rather uncommon problem in race horses and it’s called enostosis type lesion ☢️🦴

We diagnose one of these every other year
Luckily prognosis is good and all horses need are time and rehab

01/02/2024

🔊🏇This check ligament is not in a great way 🔊🏇

$🦴🏇Healing transverse fracture of the cannon bone in a racehorse 🦴🏇$

29/01/2024

🦴🏇Healing transverse fracture of the cannon bone in a racehorse 🦴🏇

18/01/2024

❄️🏇💩Make sure your horses drink or they gonna get impacted and then you need to call the vet to tube them and it’s gonna cost you a lot of money!❄️🏇💩

06/01/2024

Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents P**s Poor Performance.

04/01/2024

Can you spot the lesion here? Not that one, the other one

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