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ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2022

Evaluation of Eosinopenia as a SIRS Biomarker in Critically Ill Horses.

María Martín-Cuervo, Luis Alfonso Gracia-Calvo, Beatriz Macías-García, Luis Javier Ezquerra, Rafael Barrera

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Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

María Martín-CuervoGrupo MECIAN, Departamento de Medicina Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Campus de Cáceres, Universidad de Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4169-5318
Luis Alfonso Gracia-CalvoVeterinary Teaching Hospital, University of Helsinki, Koetilankuja 1, 00790 Helsinki, Finland.
Beatriz Macías-GarcíaGrupo MINVET, Departamento de Medicina Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Campus de Cáceres, Universidad de Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-5331-9793
Luis Javier EzquerraGrupo MECIAN, Departamento de Medicina Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Campus de Cáceres, Universidad de Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-2536-9480
Rafael BarreraGrupo MINVET, Departamento de Medicina Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Campus de Cáceres, Universidad de Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3341-7331
Universidad de Extremadura · ESUniversity of Helsinki · FI

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) is a very common finding in critically ill patients. To accurately identify patients with SIRS and those who need intensive care, several markers have been evaluated, including cortisol, WBC or lactate. It is widely known that a stress leukogram includes eosinopenia as one of its main markers (neutrophilia, eosinopenia, lymphopenia and mild monocytes). It is known that cortisol concentration in plasma is the main stress biomarker and is strongly correlated with the severity of disease in horses. However, it is not possible to measure this parameter routinely in clinical conditions. Hence, in this study it was hypothesized that the eosinophil count could be a reliable parameter to identify critically ill horses. Horses included in this study were divided into three groups: Group A (sick horses received at the Emergency Unit which did not fulfil the criteria for SIRS), Group B (horses that meet two or more criteria for inclusion in the definition of SIRS) and a control group of healthy horses. In this study, horses with SIRS showed lower eosinophil counts than healthy horses. Moreover, non-surviving horses exhibited lower eosinophil counts than survivors. Eosinopenia could be used to identify horses with SIRS and can be useful as a prognostic marker.

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