TheHorse.com

Equine ER

Equine ER

About Leslie

Leslie Guttman is an independent journalist and freelance writer whose work has appeared in such publications as the Washington Post, Salon, Orion, and the San Francisco Chronicle, where she worked on staff for over a decade. Her awards include being honored by the Society of Professional Journalists for outstanding journalism. She's also worked as an editor at Wired magazine, and her public radio commentary has been broadcast nationally on Marketplace.

Browse by Tags

Home » All Tags » EPM (RSS)

10 Questions for Piaff's Vet

26 Jul 2009, 7:45 PM

For the past few weeks we’ve been serializing a chapter entitled “Piaff” from the new book Equine ER: Stories from a Year in the Life of an Equine Veterinary Hospital by Leslie Guttman (Eclipse Press, 2009). Piaff, a Dutch warmblood gelding, had a devastating case of equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM), an infection of a horse’s central nervous system, from which he did not survive. (See previous...

Piaff, Part 1

5 Jul 2009, 8:42 PM

Inside the stall, the massive horse balanced precariously on three legs, supported by a sling around his 1,500-pound body that was suspended from a one-ton hoist in the ceiling. His name was Piaff and he was Dutch Warmblood gelding the color of dark chocolate. His left hind leg was too close to the right and knuckled over at the fetlock. Dr. Stephen Reed stood at Piaff's head while two interns...

Readers are cautioned to seek the advice of a qualified veterinarian before proceeding with any diagnosis, treatment, or therapy.

Copyright © BLOOD-HORSE PUBLICATIONS. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without written permission of BLOOD-HORSE
PUBLICATIONS is prohibited. THE HORSE, THE HORSE logo, THEHORSE.COM and THEHORSE.COM logo are trademarks of BLOOD-HORSE PUBLICATIONS.