Integration with existing pathology data systems must also be possible.
Galactoductography revealed an existing pathology.
The algorithm was applied repeatedly for each existing pathology.
Indeed, the California Horse Racing Board has found that pre-existing pathology at the site of a fatal injury "is a reoccurring finding at necropsy, with nearly 90% of musculoskeletal racing and training fatalities showing pre-existing pathology associated with the fatal injury".
From this database, Dr Rick Arthur, the CHRB's equine medical director, has found that between85%and90%90% of all fatal musculoskeletal injuries have pre-existing pathology at the site of the fatal injury.
"If you had a horse with a certain level of pre-existing pathology in a limb, it might do better on synthetic than it would on dirt," Parkin said.
"We, in our very extensive necropsy programme in California, have identified [that] between 85% and 90% of all fatal musculoskeletal injuries have pre-existing pathology at the site of the fatal injury.
Pre-existing pathology was particularly common in the medial and lateral parasagittal grooves of the distal articular surfaces of the third metacarpus/metatarsus.
It is also possible that pre-existing pathology and vascular risk may already be present outweighing any effect related to lipids.
The characteristics of, and pre-existing pathology associated with 75 cases of fatal lateral condylar fracture sustained by Thoroughbreds while racing in the UK were described.
The cross-sectional nature of these studies, short-term follow-up and inability to account for pre-existing pathology make it difficult to determine causality.
