Many horses suffer from colic each year, aging from a few months to more than 20 years. It can be cured if treated in sufficient time. However, if too much time passes, the most likely outcome is death. Colic is defined as more specific abdominal pain induced by colonic convulsions. In horses, colic is associated with intestinal ileus or inflammation (White and Edwards, 1999). When a horse is suffering from colic and requires surgery, equine laparoscopy is one of the most commonly used methods. Other procedural techniques include cryptorchiectomy, overectomy, nephrosplenic space ablation, standing abdominal exploration and many others. Equine laparoscopy involves inserting a fiberoptic instrument through the abdominal wall into the abdominal cavity. This instrument allows veterinarians to observe organs from outside the body, on a monitor. Some challenges that come with this are trying to perform surgery on a 3-dimensional animal on a 2-dimensional monitor. The first equine laparoscopic examination took place in the 1970s and has since gone through many transformations over more than 40 years. This translated into human medicine in the 1960s and 1970s, when laparoscopy became useful in gynecological practice. Recent advances in human laparoscopy are now being used in equine laparoscopy (Hendrickson, 2012). In 1983, laparoscopy was used to evaluate the reproductive tract with a laparoscope alone for diagnostic purposes, or for biopsies or manipulation by an operative laparoscope. Some of the manipulations used were ovarian biopsy, pelvic mass biopsy, culture of bacteria in the infundibulum, and inspection of tubal patency. Then, in the 1990s, surgical laparoscopy became very common. E...... middle of paper ......e Horse. Public Science Library. p. 3-4, 18.Hendrickson, dean. 2012. A review of equine laparoscopy. ISRN Veterinary Science. 1-5(Abstr.-2),52-53(17.6-18).King, Dr Christine. 1999. Prevention of colic in horses. Paper Horse, Cary, North Carolina. p. 7, 18. Owen, RR, Physick-Sheard, PW, Hilbert, BJ, Horney, FD and DG Butler. 1975. Jejuno- or ileo-caecal anastomosis performed in seven horses with colic. Can Vet J. 16(6): 164-169. Phaneuf, LP, Grivel, ML and Y. Ruckeusch. 1972. Electromyenterography during normal gastrointestinal activity, painful or non-painful colic and opioid analgesia, in the horse. Can J Comp Med. 36(2): 138-144.Udenberg, T. 1979 Equine colic associated with sand impaction of the large colon. Can Vet J. 20(10): 269-272. White, NA and GB Edwards. 1999. Equine colic handbook. The Bath Press, Somerset, Great Britain. p. 1-6.