Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Swiderski, Cyprianna E.

Committee Member

Bowser, Jacquelyn E.

Committee Member

Brashier, Michael

Date of Degree

5-3-2019

Original embargo terms

Worldwide

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Veterinary Clinical Sciences

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

College of Veterinary Medicine

Department

Veterinary Medical Science Program

Abstract

Pasture-associated severe equine asthma (EPA) is a progressive condition affecting horses in the southeastern United States. Pulmonary function testing with methacholine challenge (MC) provides a definitive diagnosis by eliciting airway hyper-responsiveness. Most horses require extensive conditioning to accept the instrumentation. Our hypothesis was that MC protocols designed to elicit airway hyper-responsiveness would yield equivalent results in the presence and absence of sedation. Sedated and unsedated MCs were performed on 8 EPA-affected horses, with each horse acting as its own control. Acepromazine was superior to xylazine/butorphanol, resulting in sedation and data collection. Based on American Thoracic Society guidelines, an acceptable ability to detect differences in lung resistance is less than a twofold difference in the provocative concentration of methacholine that elicited a 40% increase in lung resistance (PC40RL). Significant differences in PC40RL were not detected. Validation of a sedation protocol for use in MC will expand the application of this diagnostic.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/21239

Comments

equine||airway disease||pulmonary function testing||methacholine challenge

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