DACH Konferenz 2025 - Managing acute and chronic laminitis
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This presentation reviews the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of both acute and chronic laminitis, with emphasis on endocrinopathic laminitis as the most common form.
It outlines key clinical and radiographic indicators of disease severity and progression, including founder distance and distal phalanx displacement, and discusses strategies to minimize lamellar damage in the acute phase through strict rest, analgesia, heel elevation, and metabolic control.
Chronic management focuses on radiograph-guided farriery, stabilization of the distal phalanx, and when appropriate, surgical options such as deep digital flexor tenotomy or hoof wall resection.
The lecture highlights the importance of early detection, ongoing monitoring, and realistic prognostic discussions with owners.
This lecture was part of the DACH Conference 2025 and was originally held on December 13, 2025.
Language: English
1 hour according to § 10(2) of the ATF Statutes as mandatory continuing education for ATF members.
ATF hours are recognized by the ÖTK as educational hours.
Recognition according to the guidelines of the Society of Swiss Veterinarians is possible.
The accreditation of CE Points is approved under the condition of a positive completion of the test in the specified period and is valid from January 19, 2026 - January 19, 2027
BVSc MVetMed FHEA Dipl.ECVS MRCVS
Andy graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2004 and worked for the Society for the Protection of Animals Abroad in Morocco for the following three months. He then worked in mixed practice for 2 years.
In July 2006 he undertook an eighteen-month internship at the Liphook Equine Hospital followed by a six-month ambulatory position. He then completed a three-year Equine Surgery Residency and Master of Veterinary Medicine at the Royal Veterinary College.
He took up the position of Staff Clinician in Equine Surgery in February 2012 becoming a lecturer in 2014, a Senior lecturer in 2017 and an Associate Professor in Equine Surgery in 2021. In 2019 he became the Deputy Head of the RVC Equine Referral Hospital.
He is an RCVS and European Specialist in Equine Surgery with a particular interest in the use of the objective gait analysis system and its role in working up poor performance cases, orthopaedic ultrasonogaphy and the role of back and sacroiliac pain in poor performance.
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