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Patricia Bell
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Username: boomer
Post Number: 240
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, Mar 28, 2007 - 5:42 pm: |   |
My question is are these the same thing? A woman told me the other day that founder is when the coffin bone rotates and laminitis is the inflammation leading up to founder...Now I'm confused.. |
Robert N. Oglesby DVM
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Username: dro
Post Number: 18115
Registered: 1-1997
| | Posted on Thursday, Mar 29, 2007 - 6:45 am: | |
I have seen others make this distinction but the problem with the term "laminitis" is that the more we learn about it, the less likely inflammation appears to be as a initiating event in founder. To avoid this pathophysiological confusion I prefer the term "founder" myself but the rest of the world just has not caught up yet. But these are just words, to understand what founder is see, Diseases of Horses » Lameness » Diseases of the Hoof » Founder & Laminitis » Founder & Laminitis an Overview.
DrO |
Patricia Bell
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Username: boomer
Post Number: 241
Registered: 1-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, Mar 29, 2007 - 11:34 am: | |
Thank you Dr. I did read it and it was a really good article. |
