Colic-like discomfort associated with ovulation in two mares
Cox, J.H.; DeBowes, R.M.
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 191(11): 1451-1452
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-1488 PMID: 3692993 Document Number: 297045
Discomfort manifested by colic-like clinical signs in 2 young mares was presumed to be attributable to ovarian pain associated with follicular enlargement and ovulation. Diagnosis was based on the lack of detectable evidence of gastrointestinal disease, the finding of a large ovarian follicle or recent ovulation, the repetition of signs during several subsequent estrual periods, and the clinical response to pharmacologic suppression of estrus and ovulation. The similarity of the clinical signs in these 2 mares to cyclic intermenstrual pain in women was considered.