Je mets en vrac ici ma correspondance avec Andrea. J'aurai besoin d'une aide traduction seulement pour la partie sur les analyses sanguines qui dépasse de loin mon vocabulaire et mes connaissances scientifiques.
"Has your vet sent off insulin to be tested? (non j'ai renvoyé un mail)
He cannot tell if Pin has EMS from the blood results you posted - insulin has to be sent off to a lab.
You should be able to get ACTH tested free of charge (gratuit) - Lyon are doing this.
The glucose result is good - but this is not indicative of EMS. (oui j'attends les résultats)
What is concerning is the white blood cell count. - the low neutrophils.
Did the vet take Pin's temperature, or have you? (non je vais le faire)
The low red blood cells are not so unusual - you would expect a horse that cannot move to have low red blood cells - but the HCT is low.
Is he eating well? Is he interested in what is going on around him? (non au début, maintenant plutôt pour le foin mais il n'aime pas les grannulés de foin et oui il est attentif et plutôt bavard)"
"I've just printed the blood results and seen more...
His liver enzymes are high - GGT should be under 30, and it's 282. ASAT (AST) and LDH are also high - these are all liver enzymes (although ASAT and LDH can reflect other problems, like ASAT also shows muscle problems/tension).
Interestingly CK is normal - ASAT and CK are often high in horses with laminitis from muscle tension.
However, there is a problem with these results, so I'm wondering if the blood sample was spoiled....
On a complete blood count, which looks at the red blood cells (GR), GR, HCT and HGB are measured values, and from these results, VGM, TCMH and CCMH are calculated. CCMH can never be over 40 - no exceptions, it simply cannot be. So when it is, you know that there is something wrong with the other results - something isn't correct.
I'll look into it more tomorrow - I need a fresh brain! But https://en.wikipedia.org/.../Mean_corpuscular_hemoglobin... suggests that MCHC (CCMH in French) can be too high because of auto-agglutination (when cells stick together) or haemolysis (when blood cells are damaged). Either way, the vet should have picked up on this! I'll try to work out the most likely cause of the problem, and then see how that would have affected the other blood results, e.g. the liver enzymes.
Mistakes like this are, in my experience, quite common when blood is tested using a table top machine at the vets, rather than a proper laboratory - these results looks as if they are from a table top machine.."
En effet je crois que mon véto fait ces analyses chez lui
"The x-rays are pretty much as I predicted. Not too much rotation, but there is a lot of bone loss on the front feet. However, horses can lose 25% of their P3, and I have seen horses with more bone loss than this.
Tomorrow I will have a good look at the x-rays, mark up the trim that is needed, and see how that compares to the photos of the trim that has taken place.
Well done on the photos!"
"http://www.thelaminitissite.org/misty.html - have you seen Misty's story - her feet were worse than Pin's, and she had been in a bad state for years.
You will need to treat the infection in his feet urgently, because while his feet are sore and infected you will not be able to get him bearing weight on his frog - and he will need to.
CleanTrax, salt water or 50:50 apple cider vinegar (from the supermarket) and warm water should all help, then daily antibiotic spray - we used oxytetrine - you will need to get this from a vet, or hopefully your vet left something?"
Et elle a ensuite très gentiment proposé de m'envoyer du cleantrax.
J'ai posé la question pour le sulfate de cuivre mais elle m'a dit que sur des tissus vivants c'était douloureux.