Uncle Mo diagnosis

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Riot

Here's a link to the Merck Manual Online. Just enter "hepatic" as your search term and go from the page of topics that comes up. "Enzymes" are at the bottom.

Edit: so, sorry, here's the Merck Veterinary Manual Online. Best to start with that. Same search terms.

http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp

That was informative; thank you. For those of us not trained in the medical fields, we have no knowledge base to use in distinguishing severe hepatic conditions from less severe. We hear "hepatitis," especially from a stable where a horse has died from a hepatic condition, and it's easy to jump to conclusions, without knowing how distinct from each other the two cases may be.

Here's the direct link to cholangiohepatitis from the link Riot posted.
http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/in...m&word=hepatic

So basically, hepatitis is any inflammation of the liver, but can be caused by a variety of things?