Re: RC: Re: bone scans

[Lynne Glazer <lynne@glazer.org>]

At 8:30 PM -0700 3/19/01, Susan Garlinghouse wrote:
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>Has anyone out there ever had a bone scan done on a horse.  I am 
>fully aware of what it entails when scanning a human.   But I 
>wonder, where does a horse get a scan at?
>
>UC Davis for you or *maybe* some of the big clinics.  Not a mobile 
>practice kind of thing.  You might check with your vet about the 
>track equine hospital at Santa Anita, they might do them there, or 
>possibly Los Alamitos.

Closer to her would be San Luis Rey, they offer nuclear scintigraphy. 
Is that equivalent to a bone scan, SuG?  I'll bet they do it at Alamo 
Pintado, too.

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>
>  Do they use radionucleids?
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>Yup, usually.
>
>Do horses get bad allergic reactions like people do?
>
>Not that I've seen (I havent seen tons of them), but possible.  I 
>don't think horses get allergic reactions to iodine nearly as often 
>as people do.
>
>
>  Is this an extremely expensive procedure?
>
>It's relative for what you get, but it aint cheap and requires a day 
>or two at the clinic to clear the rads.  I really don't know about 
>cost, because I've never been involved in that end of it.

Depends what you're scanning, friends that have had it done have had 
it cost from $750 to $1K.  Clearing the rads, boy did I laugh when I 
learned that they  have to do special disposal of radioactive poop.

Lynne
Norco Riverdance Ride (PS) Sept 1, 2001