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The eye and the prepurchase examination

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A.G. Matthews

In: BEVA - Annual Congress - Birmingham, 2014 by British Equine Veterinary Association
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SEP 13, 2014
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Expect anything! Horses have a very wide range of ‘normality’
• The questions to be answered are:
• Does this lesion adversely affect visual function?
• Is this lesion likely to progress?
• Most lesions are encountered in the iris, lens, vitreous and fundus
• Provide information to allow the purchaser to make an informed decision
• It is not possible to objectively assess vision in horses unless the horse is actually blind! […]

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Bents Cottage, Lunan Bay, Inverkeillor, Angus, DD11 5SS, UK

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