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Atypical Myopathy – Masquerading as Colic for Years or an Emerging Disease?
V. South
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The earliest UK cases of atypical myopathy, formerly known as atypical myoglobinuria, were described in the veterinary literature in the early 1940s, but the condition was probably encountered long before this according to historical veterinary texts in the preceding decades. In the early 1980s an outbreak of myopathy amongst grazing horses was reported in Scotland, and investigators of this outbreak defined atypical myopathy as a specific disease. The clinical signs reported in these earliest cases were associated with postural and respiratory muscle failure, and horses demonstrated biochemical evidence of a myopathy (elevated creatine kinase and aspartate aminotransferase) and myoglobinuria ...
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Liphook Equine Hospital, Forest Mere, Liphook, Hampshire, GU30 7JG, UK
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