Vets opinion on the spleen

[paisjpq]

Originally Posted by docicu3

C'mon now, next I'll be reading on here about strapping an oxygen mask on Curlin for a boost of good ole O2 right before loading the horse into the gate at 06:00 PM Saturday......only to be outdone by Dr Pletcher booking a hyperbaric oxygen room at 3 atmospheres for Any Given Sunday........

never underestimate the things that go on training horses...there have been instances where horses are trained on a treadmill in a low oxygen environment in an attempt to give them an edge on raceday...and the hyperbaric chamber is used more often than you might think in an effort to reduce the potential for a horse to bleed.

and the spleen in a horse DOES operate differently than in humans...not all medicine can be definitively used cross species...almost half of all formed RBC's are stored in the horse's spleen, which as I understand it (I am not a doctor) differs from the human spleen which primarily stores platelets.