Breath characteristics and adventitious lung sounds in healthy and asthmatic horses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Standard thoracic auscultation suffers from limitations, and no systematic analysis of breath sounds in asthmatic horses exists.

Objectives

First, characterize breath sounds in horses recorded using a novel digital auscultation device (DAD). Second, use DAD to compare breath variables and occurrence of adventitious sounds in healthy and asthmatic horses.

Animals

Twelve healthy control horses (ctl), 12 horses with mild to moderate asthma (mEA), 10 horses with severe asthma (sEA) (5 in remission [sEA-], and 5 in exacerbation [sEA+]).

Methods

Prospective multicenter case-control study. Horses were categorized based on the horse owner-assessed respiratory signs index. Each horse was digitally auscultated in 11 locations simultaneously for 1 hour. One-hun

SUBMITTER: Greim E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10800186 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature