Informe final de práctica profesional. Resolución de osteoartritis degenerativa de la articulación tarsometatarsiana e intertarsiana distal en yegua de Polo Argentino.

Abstract

Degenerative joint disease is an irreversible condition. This disease can occur in any joint, although in horses it is very common that it develops in the tarsus and in the proximal interphalangeal joint. Conventional medical therapy reaches a point in time when the disease ceases to be the most effective, so surgical intervention are recommended as a definitive resolution. In the present case, the surgical procedure and partial evolution of a 7-year-old Argentine saddle pole with a diagnosis of degenerative osteoarthritis of the tarsometatarsal and distal intertarsal joints resolved by the surgical technique of arthrodesis with osteosynthesis material, generating a total ankylosis of the intervened joints, definitively solving the disease.