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Equine Perinatal and Neonatal Care
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Equine Perinatal and Neonatal Care

A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Equids".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 5123

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Carolina Castagnetti

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Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, 40064 Ozzano Emilia, Bologna, Italy
Interests: veterinary perinatology; neonatal intensive care
Prof. Dr. Jole Mariella

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Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, 40064 Ozzano Emilia, Bologna, Italy
Interests: veterinary perinatology; neonatal intensive care

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Although the survival rate of critically ill foals has improved over the last decades, prompt recognition, immediate intervention and, whenever possible, prevention of neonatal diseases remain crucial to saving foals’ lives. Neonatal health is strongly linked to the foetal and perinatal period, particularly the last weeks of pregnancy, parturition and the first hours of a foal’s life. Continuously enhancing our understanding of equine perinatology is therefore of utmost importance. It will help veterinarians to optimise neonatal care and further increase foal survival, setting the foundations for a healthy life and successful performance.

We are therefore excited to invite authors to submit original manuscripts, review articles and selected case reports and case series addressing any aspect of equine perinatal and neonatal care. Topics of interest include high-risk pregnancy and foetal monitoring, perinatal physiology and pathophysiology, parturition, neonatal care and neonatal intensive treatment.

Prof. Carolina Castagnetti
Prof. Jole Mariella
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • mare
  • high-risk pregnancy
  • peripartum
  • parturition
  • foal
  • intensive care

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Dystocia in the Standardbred Mare: A Retrospective Study from 2004 to 2020
by Aliai Lanci, Francesca Perina, André Donadoni, Carolina Castagnetti and Jole Mariella
Animals 2022, 12(12), 1486; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12121486 - 8 Jun 2022
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Dystocia as a prolonged stage II parturition (>30 min) was associated with a higher risk of complications. The hypothesis of the study was that any type of dystocia could affect the foal’s health, even when the stage II was <30 min. Clinical reports [...] Read more.
Dystocia as a prolonged stage II parturition (>30 min) was associated with a higher risk of complications. The hypothesis of the study was that any type of dystocia could affect the foal’s health, even when the stage II was <30 min. Clinical reports on 222 Standardbred mares and their foals hospitalized at the Veterinary Teaching Hospital of the University of Bologna from 2004 to 2020 were reviewed. Mares were divided into the Eutocia Group (165, eutocic delivery) and the Dystocia Group (57, dystocic delivery). The incidence of dystocia was 4.9%. Stage II was longer in the Dystocia Group (median 20 min) than in the Eutocia Group (median 12 min). All occurrences of dystocia were retrospectively classified into three categories of severity: mild, moderate and severe dystocia. The occurrence of postpartum complications in mares and neonatal diseases and failure of passive transfer of immunity in foals was higher in the Dystocia Group. Foal venous lactatemia and serum creatine kinase were significantly higher in the Dystocia Group (median 3.9 mmol/L; 262 UI/L respectively) than in the Eutocia Group (median 3.1 mmol/L; 187 UI/L respectively). The APGAR score was lower in the Dystocia Group (median 8) than in the Eutocia Group (median 10) and significantly lower in severe dystocia (median 3). The duration of stage II should not be considered the only parameter of dystocia in mares: even a rapid resolution of dystocia could pose health risks to the foal and the mare. Full article
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Hair Cortisol and DHEA-S in Foals and Mares as a Retrospective Picture of Feto-Maternal Relationship under Physiological and Pathological Conditions
by Aliai Lanci, Jole Mariella, Nicola Ellero, Alice Faoro, Tanja Peric, Alberto Prandi, Francesca Freccero and Carolina Castagnetti
Animals 2022, 12(10), 1266; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12101266 - 14 May 2022
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Equine fetal hair starts to grow at around 270 days of pregnancy, and hair collected at birth reflects hormones of the last third of pregnancy. The study aimed to evaluate cortisol (CORT) and dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEA-S) concentrations and their ratio in the trichological matrix [...] Read more.
Equine fetal hair starts to grow at around 270 days of pregnancy, and hair collected at birth reflects hormones of the last third of pregnancy. The study aimed to evaluate cortisol (CORT) and dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEA-S) concentrations and their ratio in the trichological matrix of foals and mares in relation to their clinical parameters; the clinical condition of the neonate (study 1); the housing place at parturition (study 2). In study 1, 107 mare-foal pairs were divided into healthy (group H; n = 56) and sick (group S; n = 51) foals, whereas in study 2, group H was divided into hospital (n = 30) and breeding farm (n = 26) parturition. Steroids from hair were measured using a solid-phase microtiter radioimmunoassay. In study 1, hair CORT concentrations measured in foals did not differ between groups and did not appear to be influenced by clinical parameters. A correlation between foal and mare hair CORT concentrations (p = 0.019; r = 0.312, group H; p = 0.006; r = 0.349, group S) and between CORT and DHEA-S concentrations in foals (p = 0.018; r = 0.282, group H; p < 0.001; r = 0.44, group S) and mares (p = 0.006; r = 0.361, group H; p = 0.027; r = 0.271, group S) exists in both groups. Increased hair DHEA-S concentrations (p = 0.033) and decreased CORT/DHEA-S ratio (p < 0.001) appear to be potential biomarkers of chronic stress in the final third of pregnancy, as well as a potential sign of resilience and allostatic load in sick foals, and deserve further attention in the evaluation of prenatal hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity in the equine species. In study 2, hormone concentrations in the hair of mares hospitalized for attended parturition did not differ from those that were foaled at the breeding farm. This result could be related to a too brief period of hospitalization to cause significant changes in steroid deposition in the mare’s hair. Full article
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