Enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica EPOC, en un equino.

Abstract

On August 31, 2018, veterinary clinical services were requested in an equine hatchery located in Los Patios, Norte de Santander. The semoviente is a whole horse, of Colombian Creole race of 13 years. The scale of corporal condition in equines that it presents is 3.5 of 5. Its symptomatology that was observed was: dyspnea, tachypnea, inappetence, decay. The blood sample was taken in EDTA tube for hemogram that were processed in the veterinary diagnostic laboratory; which did not show abnormal values in the hemogram. With the aforementioned symptomatology and pulmonary auscultation, a diagnosis was Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). This pathology is caused by allergens of non-specific origin in this patient. A treatment with the corticosteroid triamcinolone, as an anti-inflammatory and bronchodilator Clenbuterol, was established, being a selective agonist of beta-2-adrenergic receptors for the obstructive treatment in the respiratory tract. The specimen did not respond satisfactorily to the treatment, dying on the eighth day of its diagnosis.