By Mayo Clinic Staff. An intravenous pyelogram (PIE-uh-low-gram), also called an excretory urogram, is an X-ray exam of your urinary tract. An intravenous pyelogram lets your doctor view your kidneys, your bladder and the tubes that carry urine from your kidneys to your bladder (ureters).
The silver, silver dapple, chocolate flax or Taffy gene. Silver, or silver dapple is the common term used for horses with a dilution gene that works to dilute black pigment. The gene usually causes a partial lightening of black pigment in the body coat and a more extreme lightening (or âsilveringâ) of the mane and tail.
Often referred to as PSSM, this disease is called equine polysaccharide storage myopathy, or EPSM, when it occurs in draft horses. A clinical diagnosis of PSSM can be made when a horse that suffers from chronic exertional rhabdomyolys (ER) is found to have amylase-resistant polysaccharide in his muscles.Amylase is the enzyme that breaks starches down to sugars. ER is a syndrome of muscle pain and cramping that is associated with exercise. clinical diagnosis of PSSM can be made when a horse that suffers from chronic exertional rhabdomyolys (ER) is found to have amylase-resistant polysaccharide in his muscles. Amylase is the enzyme that breaks starches down to sugars. ER is a syndrome of muscle pain and cramping that is associated with exercise.