These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Survival rates of mares and foals and postoperative complications and fertility of mares after cesarean section: 95 cases (1986-2000).
    Author: Abernathy-Young KK, LeBlanc MM, Embertson RM, Pierce SW, Stromberg AJ.
    Journal: J Am Vet Med Assoc; 2012 Oct 01; 241(7):927-34. PubMed ID: 23013507.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVE: To assess survival-to-discharge rates of mares and foals and postoperative complications and fertility in mares following cesarean section (C-section). DESIGN: Retrospective case series. ANIMALS: 95 mares. PROCEDURES: Medical and breeding records of mares that underwent C-section were reviewed; signalment, surgical technique, complications, survival-to-discharge rate, and pregnancy and foaling rates were recorded and evaluated. Foaling rates in the 3 years after C-section were compared with the cumulative foaling rate before C-section. RESULTS: C-section was performed because of dystocia (n = 71) or concurrent maternal disease (20) or was elective (4). Overall survival-to-discharge rate was 84% (80/95) for mares and 35% (28/80) for foals. Six of 15 mares that had partial fetotomies prior to C-section did not survive. Mares that had dystocia for < 90 minutes had the fewest complications. Cumulative foaling rate before C-section was 77% (394/509). Overall foaling rate for the 3 years after C-section was 52% (30/58) and 68% (13/19) when duration of dystocia was ≥ 90 minutes and < 90 minutes, respectively, and was 31 % (9/29) for mares ≥ 16 years old. Foaling rate was significantly lower for mares bred in the same year as C-section than for mares bred in later years. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Breeding in the same year as C-section, dystocia for ≥ 90 minutes before C-section, and mare age ≥ 16 years were associated with poor foaling rates. Prognosis for delivery of a live foal in years following C-section was good if duration of dystocia was < 90 minutes and the mare was < 16 years old at the time of surgery.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]