Metalloproteinases and Their Tissue Inhibitors in Comparison between Different Chronic Pneumopathies in the Horse

Table 2

Results of clinical examinations. shows significant increase to controls at and significant increase in RAO compared to IAD and CIP. RAO: recurrent airway obstruction, IAD: inflammatory airway disease, and CIP: chronic interstitial pneumopathy.

	Controls ()	RAO ()	IAD ()	CIP ()
Endoscopy score	0 ± 0	1.82 ± 0.39	1.17 ± 0.71	0.91 ± 0.7
BAL score	0 ± 0	3 ± 0	1.39 ± 1.04	0.45 ± 0.69
Blood gas score	0.2 ± 0.4	0.76 ± 0.75	0.17 ± 0.38	0.36 ± 0.81
Total exam score	0.27 ± 0.46	8.12 ± 2.23	3.88 ± 1.41	2.36 ± 2.66