Horse-Life Fitness

So this Saturday I sat down and did some research again into my horse's mysterious ankle funk. Finally this search has seemed to be fruitful. Before I always wound up chasing my tail trying to find a condition that fit well. The issue is it is a persistent scratches like funk that hardly responds to even the most aggressive treatments. To get to the point it seems he has Pastern Leucocytoclastic Vasculitis or PLV for those of us who don't speak science well. The big reason fo r trying to find a name to put to it is because we have had vets trying to diagnose and never getting it right most of his life (10+ yrs). This scientific article that really gave me the "AH HA!" moment. Equiderma also has a decent article on it. They have the most layman friendly article that summarizes all the information I found from other sites well. Back to the vet journal article, they described the non-pigmented skin issues, but what no one else mentioned is the pigmented skin issues. Pi