Estudo radiográfico de prevalência de osteoartrite társica em equídeos atendidos no Hospital Veterinário - UFU no período de janeiro de 2017 à novembro de 2019

Abstract

Sometimes horses will be required above their natural limits, wich leads to a big joint effort resulting in a biamechanical alternation. Tarsal joint disordens are common, being tarsal osteoarthritis the most common. The radiographic examination is the effective method to diagnose osteoarticular chances. The objetivo of this study was to investigate throught retrospective avaliation the prevalence of tarsal osteoarthritis in horse treated at the medical and surgical sector of the veterinary Hospital the Federal University of Uberlândia (HV-UFU). A total of 188 clinical records of horses treated at the hospital within that period. Of these, 5,8% presented radiographic chances equivalent to tarsal osteoarthritis in at least one of the limbs, 45,5% of them being Quarter Mile, 45,5% not defined race, 9% Bretan. The radiographic alternations found were osteophytes in 77,8%, joint space narrowing 11,1% and ankylosis 5,5%. Regarding the joints affected by tarsal osteoarthritis, 12% were proximal intertarsal, 3,8% distal intertarsal and 50% tarsometatarsal. Based on the results of this study, we conduced that the prevalence of tarsal osteoarthritis of the patients treated at the veterinary Hospital (HV-UFU) was 5,8% which was similar to what is discribed in the literature.