The lack of blood supply may result from inappropriate prolonged opening of avas which shunt blood away.
Incidene rate of laminitis.
The period prevalence of laminitis was 0 6 per cent 95 per cent ci 0 4 per cent to 1 2 per cen with 10 1565 animals treated with corticosteroids developing laminitis.
Only 12 of owner reported laminitis cases occur due to causes such as colic diarrhea retained placenta or grain overload.
In mechanical overload laminitis it is thought that there is inadequate blood supply to the lamellar tissue associated with excessive and continuous.
I read article after article after article about the mortality rate of laminitis and i couldn t find a single study to specifically track this stat.
So 7 was the average and most common number that popped up.
The rest are related to diet or obesity and or systemic endocrine.
Mechanical overload supporting limb laminitis sll e g.
Associated with a fracture or infected joint in the other leg so that the leg which is bearing all of the weight is at risk of laminitis.
All animals received doses that were within the recommended ranges for horses.
The development of the disease is not completely understood however and other mechanisms may prove to be involved.