Good-day. Dominic Barfield here, and this is the obviously clinical podcast. Thank you for listening and thank you for subscribing on your smartphone, your generic fruit brace device.

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Brian and myself in the studio today, we have Mike Heurtson, one of our Equine Internal Medicine

senior lecturers here at the RVC. Thank you very much, Mike, for joining us.

It's a pleasure, though. And what I thought we

would talk about today would be, so gastric, equine gastric ulceration syndrome. So maybe I could

first ask you, Mike, what is it? Quite a long name for something. Yeah, no, I guess it is.

I think it is.

I think it's very similar to the umbrella term used in human medicine,

which is called PUD or Peptic ulcer disease, and incorporates a large number of different diseases under one umbrella term.

And in equine medicine

We recognize that

gastric ulcers

As it were are related to not only two different anatomical regions of the stomach

If you remember horses have both the squamous and a glandular

meocosar in their stomachs, but also the disease

pathogenesis and epidemiology is very different between these two different mucosa.

So we use the term equine gastric ulcer syndrome to describe both diseases of the glandular mucosa as well as the squamous

mucosa and under that umbrella term we have a specific term for diseases related to the squamous

epithelium called equine squamous gastric disease and then equine glandular gastric disease to

describe those diseases of the glengyme chosos.

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