Nutritional muscular dystrophy in a four-day-old Connemara foal

Abstract

Abstract This report describes a four-day-old, full-term Connemara colt, presented for the evaluation of a progressive inability to rise unassisted. A diagnosis of nutritional muscular dystrophy was made based on muscular weakness, elevated muscle enzymes and low vitamin E, selenium and glutathione peroxidase activity. The foal was treated with intramuscular vitamin E-selenium and made a full recovery.

Keywords

• elevated muscle
• enzymes
• equine
• foal
• nutritional muscular dystrophy
• selenium
• weakness
• white muscle disease
• vitamin E