Chapter 20 Liver Failure, Anemia and Blood Transfusion

Liver Failure

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  9. Peek SF, Divers TJ, Jackson CJ: Hyperammonaemia associated with encephalopathy and abdominal pain without evidence of liver disease in four mature horses, Equine Vet J 29:70-74, 1997. PUBMED Abstract

Hemolytic Anemia and Hemorrhage

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  3. Dechant JE, Nieto JE, LeJeune SS: Hemoperitoneum in horses: 67 cases (1989-2004), J Am Vet Med Assoc 229:253-258, 2006. PUBMED Abstract
  4. Doyle AJ, Freeman DE, Rapp H et al: Life-threatening hemorrhage from enterotomies and anastomoses in 7 horses, Vet Surg 32:553-558, 2003. PUBMED Abstract
  5. Franzén P, Aspan A, Egenvall A et al: Molecular evidence for persistence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in the absence of clinical abnormalities in horses after recovery from acute experimental infection, J Vet Intern Med 23(3):636-642, 2009. PUBMED Abstract
  6. Frederick J, Giguère S, Butterworth K et al: Severe phenylephrine-associated hemorrhage in five aged horses, J Am Vet Med Assoc 237(7):830-834, 2010. PUBMED Abstract
  7. George LW, Divers TJ, Mahaffey EA, Suarez MJ: Heinz body anemia and methemoglobinemia in ponies given red maple leaves, Vet Pathol 19:521-533, 1982. PUBMED Abstract
  8. Hurcombe SD, Mudge MC, Hinchcliff KW: Clinical and clinicopathologic variables in adult horses receiving blood transfusions: 31 cases (1999-2005), J Am Vet Med Assoc 15;231(2):267-274, 2007. PUBMED Abstract
  9. Magdesian KG, Fielding CL, Rhodes DM, Ruby RE: Changes in central venous pressure and blood lactate concentration in response to acute blood loss in horses, J Am Vet Med Assoc 229:1458-1462, 2006. PUBMED Abstract
  10. Moore BR, Abood S, Hinchcliff KS: Hyperlipemia in nine miniature horses and miniature donkeys, J Vet Intern Med 8:376-381, 1994, PUBMED Abstract
  11. Mudge MC, Walker NJ, Borjesson DL et al: Post-transfusion survival of biotin-labeled allogeneic RBCs in adult horses, Vet Clin Pathol 41:56-62, 2012. PUBMED Abstract
  12. Perkins GA, Divers TJ: Polymerized hemoglobin therapy in a foal with neonatal isoerythrolysis, J Vet Emerg Crit Care 11:141-147, 2001.
  13. Polkes AC, Giguère S, Lester GD, Bain FT: Factors associated with outcome in foals with neonatal isoerythrolysis (72 cases, 1988-2003), J Vet Intern Med 22(5):1216-1222, 2008. PUBMED Abstract
  14. Slovis NM, Murray G: How to approach whole blood transfusions in horses, AAEP proceedings 47:266-269, 2001.
  15. Thomas HL, Livesay MA: Immune-mediated hemolytic anemia associated with trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole administration in a horse, Can Vet J 39:171-173, 1998. PUBMED Abstract
  16. Tocci LJ, Ewing PJ: Increasing patient safety in veterinary transfusion medicine: an overview of pretransfusion testing, J Vet Emerg Crit Care 19(1):66-73, 2009. PUBMED Abstract
  17. Weiss DJ, Moritz A: Equine immune-mediated hemolytic anemia associated with Clostridium perfringens infection, Vet Clin Pathol 32:22-26, 2003. PUBMED Abstract
  18. Wilson DV, Rondenay Y, Shance PU: The cardiopulmonary effects of severe blood loss in anesthetized horses, Vet Anaesth Analg 30:81-87, 2003. PUBMED Abstract