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44. Antithrombin: Could It be a Diagnostic and Prognostic Marker in Septic Neonatal Foals?

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Maria Cristina Veronesi, Carolina Castagnetti, Paola Scarpa, Alessandro Pirrone, T. Vitiello, S. Panzani, Panzani, S., Castagnetti, C., Vitiello, T., Pirrone, A., Scarpa, P., and Veronesi, M.C.

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medicine.medical_specialty, biology, Equine, Septic shock, business.industry, animal diseases, Antithrombin, medicine.disease, digestive system, Surgery, Sepsis, Foal, Internal medicine, biology.animal, parasitic diseases, medicine, business, Antithrombin, Newborn foal, Sepsis, Septic shock, medicine.drug
Abstract

Antithrombin (AT) levels are lower in human neonates affected by sepsis and in nonsurvivors compared with survivors. The aims of this study were to evaluate AT profile in healthy newborn foals and its diagnostic and prognostic role in septic foals during the first week of life. Fifteen healthy foals and 35 septic foals were enrolled. Blood samples were collected from each healthy foal at 30 minutes, 3 and 12 hours from birth, daily from days 1–7, and at days 10 and 14. Blood was collected from each septic foal twice a day from admission to discharge or death. The AT analysis was performed by chromogenic method. Healthy foals showed decreasing levels of AT between 3 hours and 2 days, followed by an increasing trend. Septic foals did not show any difference during the period of observation, and no differences were found between healthy and septic age-matched foals. The analysis of AT activity on the day of admission in septic foals showed higher levels compared with healthy foals, in animals hospitalized at 12 and 24 hours of age (P < .01). No differences were found at admission between foals affected by sepsis and that with septic shock. Nonsurviving foals showed significantly lower levels at 3 and 4 days of age compared with surviving foals; when surviving and nonsurviving foals were compared independently by the age, nonsurviving foals showed significant (P < .05) lower levels 12 hours after admission. In conclusion, AT seems to show neither a diagnostic nor a prognostic role in septic neonatal foals.

Published
2014

45. 15-Ketodihydro-PGF2α and cortisol plasma concentrations in newborn foals after spontaneous or oxytocin-induced parturition

Author

M. Villani, Nadia Govoni, S. Panzani, Maria Cristina Veronesi, Massimo Faustini, G. Romano, Hans Kindahl, Panzani S., Villani M., Govoni N., Kindahl H., Faustini M., Romano G., and Veronesi M.C.

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Hydrocortisone, animal diseases, Health Status, Uterus, Gestational Age, Stimulation, Biology, Dinoprost, Oxytocin, FOALING INDUCTION, Food Animals, Pregnancy, PROSTAGLANDINS, Internal medicine, Blood plasma, medicine, Animals, Horses, Labor, Induced, Small Animals, NEWBORN FOAL, Fetus, Equine, CORTISOL, medicine.anatomical_structure, Endocrinology, Animals, Newborn, Gestation, Female, Animal Science and Zoology, medicine.drug, Hormone
Abstract

Hormonal changes during early neonatal life play a major role in the physiological processes underlying the maturation of several organs. Since prostaglandins and cortisol are associated with fetal organ system maturation, the aim of this study was to evaluate 15-ketodihydro-PGF2a (PGM) and cortisol plasma concentrations during the first 21 days after birth in foals born by either spontaneous (24 foals) or low-dose oxytocin (OT)-induced parturition performed after at least 320 gestational days (25 foals) since induction is often considered to be a cause of prematurity. After spontaneous birth, the PGM concentration was significantly (P < 0.05) higher at 20 and 30 min compared to samples taken several hours or days later, while induced foals showed significantly (P < 0.05) higher concentrations at 10, 20, and 30 min. Regarding differences between the two groups, the plasma concentration of PGM was significantly higher 10 (P < 0.01), 20 (P < 0.05), and 30 (P < 0.05) min and 3 h (P < 0.05) after birth in induced foals compared to foals born by spontaneous parturition. It is difficult to determine whether the higher initial PGM concentrations in induced foals is related to higher uterine or fetal PGM release induced by exogenous OT stimulation. Cortisol plasma levels in both groups were higher at birth (P < 0.05) compared to the later sampling times. No differences were observed between the two groups indicating that the induction protocol used does not seem to result in premature foals.

Published
2009

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