Uncle Mo diagnosis

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Originally Posted by Mawhip

I'm sorry. I'm not a vet. I thought Trental was an antibiotic. I was just looking at my vet bills from a horse that had the same condition as Uncle Mo. She was attended to by Dr. Nathan Slovis, who I believe was a protege of Dr. Byers. My horse was on this course of treament for many many months. I have a hard time believing Uncle Mo would be all better after a few hyperbaric treamnebts and a few doses of antibiotics.

My non-vet opionion, based on having a very good horse of my own go through the same thing, is that Uncle Mo has absolutely no shot of ever making the races again. If he does, he didn't have Cholangiohepatitus treated with meds for only a few weeks.

Dr. Slovis is is a wonderful guy and an outstanding doctor. There are different degrees of cholangiohepatitis - that is just a word describing what is inflammed - and many different causes.

Because one horse isn't treated exactly like another horse is no reason to doubt the diagnosis. Your horse may have had a sterile inflammation that was treated symptomatically and responded well after months. There may also have been a degree of liver loss via fibrosis. Uncle Mo had infection. If your horse didn't get antibiotics, there wasn't an (antibiotic-responsive) infectious cause. Was a definitive cause ever established in your horse?