White muscle disease in foals: focus on selenium soil content. A case series

BMC Veterinary Research

Table 1 Case details of the foals

	Case 1	Case 2	Case 3	Case 4	Case 5	Case 6	Case 7	Case 8
Year presented	2007	2009	2010	2010	2011	2012	2011	2011
Age of foal	1 day	12 h	3 h	1 week	36 h	12 h	1 day	1 h
Behaviour	Depressed	Dull, uncontrolled movements	Bright	Bright	Dull	Bright	Dull	Bright
Muscle weakness	Not noticed	Not noticed	None	Sternal recumb, unable to remain standing	Lateral recumb	Unable to rise	Unable to rise	Not noticed
Suckling	Reflex absent	Reflex absent	Reflex absent	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal
Gestation	Normal length (reference: 320–360 days [55]), no adverse events (illness, premature milk production, …)
Parturition	Normal	Normal, bleeding from umbilicus	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal	Mare rectum prolapse, foal normal.

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