The treatment will be continued for at least 1 week, in most cases 2 weeks or depending on the changes longer. Cortisone is absolutely contraindicated in laminitis. It aggravates or in certain instances causes laminitis. An attenuated normal vasodilatory tone may characterise the pathogenesis of acute equine laminitis. Treatment of acute laminitis with glyceryl trinitrate applied topically to the pasterns reduced the typical 'bounding pulses' in treated limbs, reduced lameness and lowered systemic blood pressure.
Nitric oxide is likely to participate in the multifactorial pathogenesis of equine laminitis.
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