Table 2 Distribution of treatment and outcome for disease process and affected portion for all 1397 horses
From: Short-term survival rates of 1397 horses referred for colic from 2010 to 2018
Diagnosis | Total | Total medical | Medical | Total surgical | Surgical | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Survival | Survival | |||||||||
n | %† | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
Simple obstruction | 604 | 43.2 | 507 | 83.9 | 492 | 97.0 | 97 | 16.1 | 79 | 81.4 |
Ascending colon | 502 | 35.9 | 427 | 85.1 | 420 | 98.4 | 75 | 14.9 | 60 | 80.0 |
Small intestine | 35 | 2.5 | 18 | 51.4 | 18 | 100.0 | 17 | 48.6 | 16 | – |
Cecum | 26 | 1.9 | 23 | 88.5 | 20 | 87.0 | 3 | – | 2 | – |
Stomach | 23 | 1.6 | 22 | 95.7 | 21 | 95.5 | 1 | – | 0 | – |
Descending colon | 15 | – | 14 | – | 10 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
Rectum | 2 | – | 2 | – | 2 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – |
Unknown | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – |
Unknown | 227 | 16.2 | 222 | 97.8 | 216 | 97.3 | 5 | – | 4 | – |
Acute entero-colitis | 198 | 14.2 | 183 | 92.4 | 125 | 68.3 | 15 | – | 7 | – |
Ascending colon | 152 | 10.9 | 148 | 97.4 | 102 | 68.9 | 4 | – | 1 | – |
Small intestine | 43 | 3.1 | 32 | 74.4 | 20 | 62.5 | 11 | – | 6 | – |
Rectum | 2 | – | 0 | – | 2 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – |
Unknown | 1 | – | 0 | – | 1 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – |
Strangulating obstruction | 158 | 11.3 | 2 | – | 0 | – | 156 | 98.7 | 84 | 53.8 |
Small intestine | 108 | 7.7 | 1 | – | - | – | 107 | 99.1 | 61 | 57.0 |
Ascending colon | 46 | 3.3 | 1 | – | - | – | 45 | 97.8 | 20 | 44.4 |
Cecum | 3 | – | 0 | – | - | – | 3 | – | 2 | – |
Descending colon | 1 | – | 0 | – | - | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
Tympany | 54 | 3.9 | 49 | 90.7 | 49 | 100.0 | 5 | – | 4 | – |
Gastric Ulcer | 47 | 3.4 | 46 | 97.9 | 45 | 97.8 | 1 | – | 0 | – |
Non-strangulating intestinal infarction | 27 | 1.9 | 3 | – | 0 | – | 24 | 88.9 | 10 | – |
Peritonitis | 27 | 1.9 | 22 | 81.5 | 22 | 100.0 | 5 | – | 5 | – |
Perforation | 15 | – | 10 | – | 0 | – | 5 | – | 1 | – |
Chronic entero-colitis | 13 | – | 13 | – | 11 | – | 0 | – | 0 | – |
Neoplasia | 9 | – | 7 | – | 0 | – | 2 | – | 0 | – |
Grass sickness | 6 | – | 4 | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | 0 | – |
Other | 5 | – | 2 | – | 1 | – | 3 | – | 0 | – |
Total | 1397 | 100.0 | 1077 | 77.1 | 966 | 89.7 | 320 | 22.9 | 194 | 60.6 |