Matthew Robin

RCVS and European Specialist in Equine Internal Medicine, Rainbow Equine Hospital, Malton, UK

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Figure 2. Rhodococcus equi-associated acute uveitis in a foal. Marked aqueous flare and hypopyon with feint corneal oedema. The condition was bilateral and appeared to be only mildly painful, as is often the case.
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Immune-mediated disorders of the eye: part two – equine recurrent uveitis

All equine practitioners will be familiar with ERU as it is the most common cause of blindness in horses worldwide (Gilger and Hollingsworth, 2017). While it is agreed to be an immune-mediated...

Figure 3. Chronic deep/mid-stromal immune-mediated keratopathy. Diffuse corneal oedema with grey cellular infiltration and stromal lacunae of green/orange tinged fluid.
Veterinary

Immune-mediated disorders of the equine eye: part 1 – the cornea

The immune-mediated keratopathies (IMMKs) are a group of poorly defined, non-ulcerative, inflammatory disorders of the cornea, where the aetiopathogenesis involves an abnormal, typically upregulated...