{"id":6993,"date":"2016-04-25T14:11:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T20:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=6993"},"modified":"2019-03-20T14:03:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:03:56","slug":"whats-a-pheochromocytoma-and-how-do-vets-diagnose-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/whats-a-pheochromocytoma-and-how-do-vets-diagnose-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s a Pheochromocytoma, and How Do Vets Diagnose It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a hormone-secreting tumor that can form in the adrenal glands of horses, potentially causing damaging high blood pressure, but it\u2019s so incredibly rare that only a handful of cases have ever been described in studies. Veterinarians don\u2019t normally notice the tumor until the horse is on the post-mortem table, at which time it\u2019s difficult to determine its significance (Did it kill the horse, or was it just an incidental finding?). But if veterinarians could know what combination of signs to look for, they could conceivably recognize the tumor\u2014called a pheochromocytoma&#8211;in a sick horse with colic or internal bleeding, perhaps, and intervene, or at least not subject the horse to medications or treatments that could cause the case to worsen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To read the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehorse.com\/articles\/37467\/whats-a-pheochromocytoma-and-how-do-vets-diagnose-it\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veterinarians don\u2019t normally notice the tumor until the horse is on the post-mortem table&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,14,31],"tags":[344,345,343,346],"class_list":["post-6993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equinews","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine","tag-adrenal-gland","tag-high-blood-pressure","tag-pheochromocytoma","tag-university-of-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8197,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions\/8197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}