Diagnostic evaluation and short-term outcome as indicators of long-term prognosis in horses with findings suggestive of inflammatory bowel disease treated with corticosteroids and anthelmintics

Table 1 Presumptive IBD subtype (based on the clinical picture and findings from the diagnostic work-up) and post-mortem diagnoses (when available) of non-survivors (n = 7), and length of survival after the discontinuation of treatment

Presumptive diagnosis	Time when died/euthanized	Indication	Post-mortem diagnosis
Lymphocytic-plasmacytic enteritis	During the treatment (day 26)	Progressive weight loss, animal welfare	Lymphocytic-plasmacytic enteritis
Eosinophilic enterocolitis	2 days after discontinuing the treatment	Colic	Idiopathic small intestinal muscular hypertrophy
Eosinophilic enterocolitis	22 days after discontinuing the treatment	Death due to acute cardiac failure	Eosinophilic enterocolitis Acute cardiac failure
Eosinophilic enterocolitis	30 days after discontinuing the treatment	Colic	Not performed
Lymphocytic-plasmacytic enteritis	120 days after discontinuing the treatment	Progressive weight loss	Lymphocytic-plasmacytic enteritis
Eosinophilic enterocolitis	7 months 13 days after discontinuing the treatment	Recurrent colic	Not performed
Eosinophilic enterocolitis	1 year 8 months after discontinuing the treatment	Recurrent colic	Eosinophilic enterocolitis

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