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| Has anyone ever had nuclear scintigraphy done on their horse? What was the cost? What were you looking for in the scan? |
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Location: IL | Buckles - 2016-06-20 6:41 AM Has anyone ever had nuclear scintigraphy done on their horse? What was the cost? What were you looking for in the scan?
I've done it 2 times. It was $1400. First was for a suspensory issues, which confirmed them. 2nd was for a knee, which didn't show much. |
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| My vet had got a quote from the local college for $2000-2500. Seemed ridiculously high |
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Location: IL | Buckles - 2016-06-20 1:21 PM My vet had got a quote from the local college for $2000-2500. Seemed ridiculously high
I agree. I went to Purdue University and its a teaching hospital so we did get a break because of that. |
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| This is a teaching hospital as well. Virginia Tech |
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| I guess we are going to try ultrasound. We think he as a torn ligament or something in his SI |
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| We had ours done at Purdue University as well, and I believe our total bill said and done was right around $1,600. She stayed at the hospital two nights :) |
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Location: IL | suiteperformance - 2016-06-23 2:27 PM We had ours done at Purdue University as well, and I believe our total bill said and done was right around $1,600. She stayed at the hospital two nights :)
That was about ours too! Did you do whole body or 1/2? Did you also find out what the problem was? |
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| We did the half scan and yes, we did! She had a stress fracture in her tibia  |
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Location: IL | suiteperformance - 2016-06-23 2:46 PM We did the half scan and yes, we did! She had a stress fracture in her tibia
That sucks, but probably healed up good. We had front suspensory strain that never healed and could not be found on Ultrasound either. Our luck I guess. He was such a nice horse. Nuc Med did show the strain though. |
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| I did a half last summer. I think it was around $900 or so- that included the scan, ultrasound- can't remember if we x-rayed and SI injections- plus a night or two overnight.......unfortunately the horse is still not sound. This was also at teaching hospital. |
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| Full body for $2000. Just confirmed what we already new. Wish I would have went with my gut and saved the money. |
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