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Belesaami
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England
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 Posted - 02 Sep 2008 : 9:04:27 PM
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Ok All, hopefully pick your brains time 
my bestest mare has just been diagnosed with endometritis. It has made her infertile, possibly permenantly. 
Have any of you had experience of this and if so what has been the outcome? From what I can gather from the vet it could be bacterial low grade infection or changes caused to the uterus itself as a rection to sperm.
The vet was uncommital but stressed the amount we would have to do in terms of swabs, scans, biopsies... blah, blah, blah but wanted to leave it to the spring. My gut instinct says clean up any infection up asap.
Any info greatfully received.
Thanks
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pat ww
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 02 Sep 2008 : 9:26:56 PM
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My first pure bred mare had had 5 or 6 foals before we got her, she went to stud, nothing happened, they got vet out who said her vulva sloped badly and she was pooling urine in her vagina. I found this hard to fathom as the urethra is below the vagina - but hey, I'm not a vet!
She had been jabbed to get into season, so we gave up that year and later let her run with a 2 year old colt. Again nothing, even though he got other mares in foal.
Trip to Leahurst, where she had a uterine biopsy. She was now 15, and the report said that she had a low grade endometritis and age related deterioration. Coupled with damage to her cervix, a chunk was missing, she would never had held a pregnancy as she would be open to continual infection risks.
"to say the prognosis is hopeless in an understatement".
Direct quote from the report.
She then lived with the colt, now a proven stallion as his companion, and had some sort of phantom pregnancy where she one day developed a copious discharge and tummy went down. A year later she started to lose weight and got loose stools, thought she was intolerant to haylage, so back onto hay which made her cough. Another trip to Leahurst to be told she was in foal.
She had a difficult labour as the healthy colt she produced had a leg back, so she was kept away from the stallion. She was now 18 and had not had a foal since she was 10.
The following spring at 19 she went back out with stallion, had one season and got in foal again, producing a massive filly when she was 20, another difficult foaling so she was definately retired from breeding.
the colt was gelded and went on to win the novice shield in his first year jumping at the local riding club, stiff competition and made it look easy. The filly we still have, she got a reserve ridden championship and won the mare class at BAHP Champs in her first season.
Reinatta was pts age 26, when failing health dictated a kinder end, she was sound to the last, but a mere shadow of her former self.
I don't know whehter this has helped, but miracles do happen, and i've got a one in a million mare that should never have been born. |
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gg
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Posted - 02 Sep 2008 : 9:41:10 PM
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don't know much about this in mares tough in humans one theory is that it is an autoimmune problem. it depends on the severity of damage wether a pregnacy would be viable. Sometimes there are lots of adhesions blocking the fallopian tubes.
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Adara_Arabians
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England
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Posted - 08 Sep 2008 : 1:34:27 PM
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| i thought this was when the womb was slopped? |
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Belesaami
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England
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Posted - 10 Sep 2008 : 09:08:54 AM
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| Hi All, thanks for your input. I think the jury os still out. I could see the infection and some patches of change in the wall itself. Will just have to wait until next spring. |
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