Krista E. Estell

3 weeks ago | beva.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Kevin Connolly |Virginia-Maryland College |Krista E. Estell

1 INTRODUCTION Feeding is a complex process involving coordination of alimentary tract structures from the rostral oral cavity to stomach with the concomitant closure of the upper respiratory tract, controlled by voluntary and reflex activity from the central and peripheral nervous system.1, 2 In humans, swallowing is a dominant process over respiration.3 Deglutition (swallowing) can be divided into oral, pharyngeal, and oesophageal phases; failure of one or more phases of this process can...

Nov 7, 2023 | beva.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Stephanie A. Givan |Krista E. Estell |Javier Martínez-López |James Brown

1 INTRODUCTION Short-term complications associated with exploratory laparotomy in the horse include colic, incisional complications, postoperative ileus, endotoxaemia, thrombophlebitis, septic peritonitis, diarrhoea and colitis.1 Colitis may result from non-infectious (e.g., inflammatory bowel disease, sand enteropathy) and infectious (e.g., Salmonellosis) etiologies. Diagnosis of infectious colitis has been shown to impact morbidity and mortality in hospitalised horses.