1. Infectious tenosynovitis;reading BERTONE, Further; L, A.;Veterinary Clinics of North America; Joint Disease in the; Infectious arthritis,1995
2. Update on infectious arthritis in horses;Philadelphia, W.B.Saunders;Equine Veterinary Education; Use of antibiotic impregnated polymethylmethacrylate in horses with open or infected fractures or joints,1999
3. - ollowim, the recent ar-ticle in 1) Pcticce)oni blood pressuLe IllCSLl-mncit in dogs and cats (Stcpieni 2000)U I oulld like to dra'A reader-s' atteition to a iLlmherlolf poitits;SIR
4. Tso facts aboult arterial pressuir-e ar-e paamiloLIlit: it is extremely vamriable froIml imlomiecnlt to milomilent an1d, in llay lpopLilation. like height. it follows aL lotmal distribhLtioll. InherenItl\ therefore. being above axverage (±+2 SD) mniiLs no imiore than beilne 7 teet tall The qimestioil is, does it have any clinical signifiance'? In huma.nlls, beyond douht. high blood pressLir-e cauises muIltiple organ damage. However. the definitioni of hypertension is lot a statistical one. hLIt a clinical onie - the level (140 systolic/90 diastolic) above Which the risk o(t daLnlaae is beliesed to be increaLsed,1993
5. Doe-s differ fromil hualIl n liithee sital respects: * Most hypertension is secondary. rathlerthali pri marv (o(S essential'): * A single species normal x alLe is no lontger tenahble as w ith plasmia creatinine. It' Ae waint to narrow the normal range aLid allowA moIe semnsitiVe detectioni of ahbnormialities. we have to take acCcLIlit of breed differeices (Bodes atid Michlell 1996. Gleadhill and Michell 1996): * Does'Awith chr-onic renal faill-re are far less likely to develop hypertenlsioll. althoueh a minloritv maxy: esen Aith elornerLilar filtrationi rate redLIceud to 33 per ceiit of the lo\Aer limit oft nornial. the mnajority ot dogfs are normotensisVe. 'whereas the mliajority of huiiians ar-e hypertenlsive,1997