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Knowledge
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Knowledge Lipogems
Positive prognosis for Lipogems polo ponies
Lipogems follows renowned veterinary surgeon Murray Shotter as he continues to treat horses and ponies around the worldwide equine
community from his Berkshire based practice, Shotter & Byers Equine Clinic.
It is estimated that 20 percent of all horses training for sporting or performance events are unable to compete due to injury, a frightening
statistic for any polo pony owner, let alone high goal teams with a barn lined with stables full of expensive legs to worry about across the world.
Murray and his team continue to travel the globe to train other veterinary professionals and offer Lipogems Equine treatments to the equine
community. Lipogems is increasing the positive prognosis of career ending injuries and has seen many more equine champions from all levels
of competition returning to their chosen fields. Murray is one of the world’s leading Lipogems veterinary surgeons and he has treated horses in
Argentina, Dubai and the UK. Plans are afoot for training and demonstration cases in New Zealand later this year. The success rates, cost-
effectiveness, efficacy and feasibility are making Lipogems the treatment of choice for the equine community from top level sports horses to
pleasure riders.
Evolving Tissue Technology
Common Conditions Treatable
with Lipogems Equine
• Flexor tendons superficial and deep
• Suspensory ligament – proximal body and
branch lesions
• Proximal suspensory desmitis
• Check ligament desmitis
• Osteo Arthritis fetlock, stifle and
interphalangeal joints
• Impinging dorsal spinous processes
• Non-healing wounds
• Sacroiliac join
What is Lipogems Equine
Technology?
There are no other comparative treatments
that trigger the body’s own damage
response mechanism in a single step non-
enzymatic, no-centrifuge procedure that is
completed on-site, under an hour either in
surgery for small animals or under standing
sedation for horses.
The Lipogems system is a sterile single-use
medical device intended for the closed-loop
processing and transferring of autologous
adipose tissue in a single surgical step.
Lipogems is a non-expanded and micro-
fragmented adipose tissue graft that is
injected into damaged areas of the body to
provide a cushion and structural support,
while promoting a healing environment.
The Lipogems process preserves the
natural healing properties of adipose tissue
by maintaining the fat’s ascular Stromal
Niches. The micro-fragmentation of the
tissue is key to the treatment process as it
triggers the body’s own damage response
mechanism. No lab culturing, no cell
isolations – Lipogems is a complete tissue
structure graft.
Murray Shotter injects the adipose tissue graft into an
inferior check ligament
PhotographycourtesyofLipogemsEquine
The Lipogems device with micro-fragmented adipose
tissue ready for transplanting
Murray Shotter BVSc
MRCVS, Shotter & Byers
Equine Clinic, Consultant
Lipogems Equine
Veterinary Surgeon
“Lipogems continues to
progress forward with the way
we approach tendon injuries,
suspensory and orthopaedic
conditions such as joint
arthritis and with confinement
syndrome (kissing spines)
within sports horses, we are
starting to treat these and
have great results. We are
having very positive results
with inferior check ligaments.”Murray Shotter at The Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club Clinic

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Knowledge
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Lipogems Knowledge
For more information and a full list of
accredited veterinary surgeons contact
details please visit:
Website: lipogemsequine.com or
lipogemscanine.com
Email: lucy_wilson@lipogemsequine.com
Tel: +44 (0)7919 252529
Follow using @lipogemsequine
@lipogemscanine
Impinging Spinous Dorsal Process Case Studies
Case 1 – Polo Pony
Injury: This polo pony was diagnosed with ‘kissing spines’, deterioration of the dorsal spinous
processes, or DSPs, which is evident in the August 2017 X-ray
Initial treatment: Initially treated by local infiltration with anti-inflammatory agents
Treatment date with Lipogems: On 20 October 2017 6ml of lipoaspirate was injected in
between the affected dorsal spinous processes
Prognosis after Lipogems Treatment: The bony reaction has settled and the space
between the two DSPs in the centre has increased as per the X-ray of November 2017. At
the time of going to press the pony had completed pre-season fitness and is currently in full
fitness and playing pre-season chukkas
To book a visit or to discuss your pony’s treatment with
Murray Shotter and his team please visit:
Website: shotterandbyers.co.uk
Email: info@shotterandbyers.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1306 627706
All ready for spring 2018 club chukkas
PhotographbyFernLorne
Inferior Check Ligament Case
Study
Case 2 – Polo Pony
Treatment date: 24 April 2017
Follow up scan date: June 2017
Prognosis: The pony played the winter
2017 to 2018 arena season in Berkshire,
before having a short holiday and back to
playing for the 2018 summer season.
This polo pony has made a full recovery
PhotographcourtesyofBevPrior
PhotographbyBevPrior
This pony is fit and playing 2018 spring chukkas
PhotographcourtesyofWaterlaneEquineVets
These X-rays show the progression of the disease and
compares post-treatment results