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What are Sarcoids?

There are 6 types of Sarcoids: The importance of appropriate treatment choice: Appropriate treatment avoids reoccurrence. Our advise is please do not ignore them as it gets a lot more expensive to...

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An update on stomach ulcers

This is a short, straight to the point summary of what’s new and agreed on stomach ulcers. Let’s just start by thinking that a horse’s stomach is a bucket: this is half full of gastric acid,...

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Understanding Bloodwork

Mean Corpuscular Volume (MCV) – This is the average volume of each red blood cell sampled. Differences in the average red blood cell volume explain why the PCV and RBC count do not always match....

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Tying Up

Another form of tying-up is polysaccharide storage myopathy (PSSM), which has genetic causes. It involves abnormal accumulation of sugars in the skeletal muscles, which interfere with cell activity....

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