Factores de crecimiento plaquetarios en el tratamiento de la tendinitis del tendón flexor digital superficial de un caballo de carreras

  • Alvaro Fernández Manzano
  • Marta Varela del Arco
  • Isabel Santiago Llorente
Keywords: Racehorse, Tendonitis, PRP, Platelet riched plasma, Growth factors

Abstract

Tendonitis is a frequent disease in racehorses. Its not-surgery resolution is based on decrease of the training intensity and on correct medical treatment, which consists in systemic antiISSN: 1988-2688 RCCV VOL. 3 (2). 2009 253 inflammatory, diuretics to decrease swelling, topic treatment with dressings and cold showers. Furthermore, it has being already used autologous plateled riched plasma (PRP) in equine sports medicine, with very good outcome. To explain this treatment, we resort to case report of a Thoroughbred (TB) racehorse mare with an acute superficial digital flexor tendonitis. We reduce her training level and treat with the classical medical therapy combined with PRP injection, which is obtained by means of successively centrifugations of the mare’s blood. The guideline was a local infiltration each week during three weeks. After that, an ultrasonography reevaluation shows an apparent macroscopic tendon recuperation that is full one month later. As a conclusion, this is a good outcome example of local PRP infiltration as a complement of correct therapy and management, which improves the tissue recuperation and makes possible animal return to high quality sports live.

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Published
2009-10-14
How to Cite
Fernández Manzano A. ., Varela del Arco M. . y Santiago Llorente I. . (2009). Factores de crecimiento plaquetarios en el tratamiento de la tendinitis del tendón flexor digital superficial de un caballo de carreras. Revista Complutense de Ciencias Veterinarias, 3(2), 253-260. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RCCV/article/view/RCCV0909220253A
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