Hyperammonemic Encephalopathy Associated with Portal Vein Thrombosis in a Thoroughbred Foal

Extrapulmonary disorders associated withRhodococcus equiinfections

“…) and hyperammonaemia associated with portal vein thrombosis (Ness et al . ). Granulomatous meningitis was found in 5 foals at post mortem examination although none had displayed antemortem neurological signs (Reuss et al .…”

“…In addition to septic arthritis, osteomyelitis has been reported (Collatos et al 1990;Desjardins and Vachon 1990;Firth et al 1993) with several cases of vertebral osteomyelitis and/or discospondylitis resulting in neurological disease (Gigu ere and Lavoie 1994;Olchowy 1994;Prescott 1994;Chaffin et al 1995;Stewart et al 2007;Garcia et al 2015). Other EPDs resulting in neurological signs include an intracranial abscess (Janicek et al 2006), occipital bone osteomyelitis and meningitis (Morresey et al 2011) and hyperammonaemia associated with portal vein thrombosis (Ness et al 2013). Granulomatous meningitis was found in 5 foals at post mortem examination although none had displayed antemortem neurological signs (Reuss et al 2009).…”