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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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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

$💉🚑🏇 That hurts 💉🚑🏇By the way this horse was treated conservatively and raced again. Didn’t win after fracturing the peda...$

04/01/2024

💉🚑🏇 That hurts 💉🚑🏇

By the way this horse was treated conservatively and raced again. Didn’t win after fracturing the pedal bone, but he had never won one before either!

Hindlimb pedal bone fractures are more forgiving

29/12/2023

🐶🏇Todays assistant 💉🚑

22/12/2023

🎅🏻🎄🎁 Xmas do 🎁🎄🎅🏻

02/12/2023

💉🏇 With , a gross examination of a sample is a good indicator of lung health.

TW samples are best for , which means growing bacterias to see if any of them is causing . There is however a possibility of whilst passing the scope up the nostrils heading down the windpipe. When examined under the , the cellular content of TW samples has less precise reference ranges than broncho-alveolar lavage samples.

Trach washes are useful as a quick and easy “screening” procedure when there is no particular suspicion of airway disease – e.g. pre-competition - is often not necessary 🚑🧲

22/11/2023

🏇🚑💉 The end of 3 very busy days at French sales looking at a lot of pretty horses 🏇💉🚑

19/11/2023

Another interesting stifle case, this has a medial patellar ligament injury and associated distal insertion enthesiopathy

This was diagnosed clinically and confirmed by ultrasound

This was the result of a trauma.

It’s the same ligament that can get transected in horses with locking stifle, therefore rehab is not too long.

Not the easiest ultrasound scan to acquire and read, but that’s why it’s called veterinary magic

18/11/2023

Stifle OCD in a horse in training

Fragments removed via arthroscopy

15/11/2023

🏁🏎️Team bonding🏎️🏁 OR 🔫🏦 bank robbery 🏦🔫

05/10/2023

🚜🌾 we are also fine hay merchants 🚜🌾

04/10/2023

A horse walks into a bar and the barman goes - why the long face?

Well in this case it’s because of facial nerve paralysis (or maybe paresis) on the left side of the face!

Clinical presentation in this case includes a droopy upper lip (same side of lesion) and lack of skin sensation on left, upper lip.

It’s in our caseload an uncommon thing to see and hopefully this will just resolve in time

On the second pic, you can see the red arrow indicating the droopy side of the face.

On the third pic, the nerve is highlighted in yellow on an of the side of the face, next to the associated blood vessels (red arrow)

There is also and anatomy pic in this post, courtesy of wonderful anatomy textbooks, the nerve affected in the anatomy dissection is the “Ramo buccale dorsale del nervo facciale” (mouth branch of facial nerve)

01/10/2023

Spot the differences

29/09/2023

🏇💣 Can you name the countries where all these plaques came from?? 🏇💣

26/09/2023

🐎💉🚑 Eye sarcoids are always a nightmare to treat but luckily thanks to and Equine Medical Solutions this horse can be treated at home using fortnightly injections with Immunocidin. So we will review this horse over the next 6 weeks and fingers crossed the mass has shrunk or disappeared 🚑💉🐎

20/09/2023

🎥🎥 VIP 🎥🎥

28/08/2023

🎉🥳 📸 Our yearly team picture 🎉🥳📸

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🏇🚑💉 I forgot to share this video a while ago, anyway one of the most delightful circumstances vets are requested to deal with. A good advice I was given by our pathology professor (Max Tursi) whilst in vet school: to keep your #mouth shut when you open an #abscess! I’ve also just realised I’m bad at editing videos so head to our Instagram page @guascoandassociates to see the whole video! #veterinary #equine #equinevet #horse #surgery #mingin #Lush

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