Equine Asthma: Current Understanding and Future Directions

Overview

Journal Front Vet Sci

Specialty Veterinary Medicine

Date 2020 Sep 9

PMID 32903600

Citations 48

Authors

Laurent Couetil

Jacqueline M Cardwell

Renaud Leguillette

Melissa Mazan

Eric Richard

Dorothee Bienzle

Michela Bullone

Vinzenz Gerber

Kathleen Ivester

Jean-Pierre Lavoie

James Martin

Gabriel Moran

Artur Niedzwiedz

Nicola Pusterla

Cyprianna Swiderski

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Abstract

The 2019 Havemeyer Workshop brought together researchers and clinicians to discuss the latest information on Equine Asthma and provide future research directions. Current clinical and molecular asthma phenotypes and endotypes in humans were discussed and compared to asthma phenotypes in horses. The role of infectious and non-infectious causes of equine asthma, genetic factors and proposed disease pathophysiology were reviewed. Diagnostic limitations were evident by the limited number of tests and biomarkers available to field practitioners. The participants emphasized the need for more accessible, standardized diagnostics that would help identify specific phenotypes and endotypes in order to create more targeted treatments or management strategies. One important outcome of the workshop was the creation of the Equine Asthma Group that will facilitate communication between veterinary practice and research communities through published and easily accessible guidelines and foster research collaboration.

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