Severe Melting Ulcer
Ty, an 18-year-old quarter horse gelding with a history of uveitis gets diagnosed with a severe melting corneal ulcer of the right eye with questionable rupture. The owner believed the horse was having a similar episode but when the clinical signs of excessive tearing and keeping the eye shut (right eye) persisted for 2 weeks she called Dr. Zach Bruggen of Elite Equine. Dr. Bruggen order EquusCell AniOcular and while waiting for it to arrive, the owner aggressively applied triple antibiotic, anti-fungal and serum to eye.
Initial picture of wound upon diagnosis.
On June 26th, the AniOcular contact was placed in right eye and temporary tarsorrhaphy performed suturing of eyelids shut.
On July 3rd, 2019, the sutures were removed. Eye was micro-ophthalmic indicating rupture. Staying optimistic continued to treat eye aggressively with medications to see if the eye could be stabilized further.
On his March 5th visit of Ty, Dr. Bruggen commented, “After first of the year the eye looked amazing and he has good vision in the eye.
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