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    TREATMENT CHALLENGES

    Aug 21, 2018 2 minutes

    Pleuropneumonia can require intensive and expensive treatment. Once it develops–and the horse is accumulating fluids between his lungs and his chest wall–the fluids will need to be drained via tubes inserted through the rib cage. This procedure is likely to be repeated multiple times over the course of the illness.

    And it may difficult to

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