Mare's biopsy results - question

[tallcarabs@juno.com]

 I'm passing my friend's questions on.  Have any of you had any
experience with breeding mares with this biopsy result?  I had a mare
that was a 1B and I didn't have much trouble getting her bred and the
foaling out was easy as pie for both mare & foal.  Should my friend be
worried??

Thanks
Rae
Tall C Arabians -- TX

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I just got a call from Dr. O'Connor with the results of Lucy's uterine
biopsy.  She's a category 2A peri-glandular fibrosis (endometritis).  She
says that Lucy has a 50/50 chance of having a healthy live foal.  So now
I
have to decide whether to rebreed Lucy to Pennant or just give up and
make
sure she stays healthy.  I'm not sure about a couple of things: 1) how
much
danger Lucy would be in if I re-bred her (Dr. O'Connor said that she
could
always rupture a uterine artery or abort...but I don't know if that means
the Lucy could be sick or die) and 2) if this is hereditary (if so, I
definitely won't rebreed).