From:
Jen & Andre
Date: 2001-11-12 14:48:00 UTC
Subject: [Ferret-Health-list] Re: What can you tell me about
Thanks for your reply Dr. Williams.
Newton will be going in for further tests this week (I hope).
It's been a long time to not know what is wrong with her (one
vet on vacation, another vet's dog died...) I'm hoping to have
a lymph node aspirate and another blood glucose done. Are
there other tests that would be appropriate to have done at
this time (She'll be anesthetized for the aspirate)? Lymphoma
and insulinoma are suspected right now (there is something
making her breathing more methodical, slow and deliberate now
and then, and there was arrythmia noticed a few weeks ago~
comes and goes as well).
Hopefully this will be cleared up soon!
Jen
----- Original Message -----
From: Bruce Williams, DVM
To: Ferret-Health-list@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 8:56 AM
holey spleen
--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "Jen & Andre"
<jen.andre@i...> wrote:
> An ultrasound showed that Newton's spleen looks like swiss
cheese.
I've looked up lymphoma and splenomegaly but I haven't come
across
anything about a spleen full of holes. There isn't a bit of
it that
doesn't look like a very coarse sponge, would the spaces
("hypoechoic") be destroyed tissue? tumors? Has anyone seen
this
before?
Dear Jen - Ultrasound is a poor diagnstoic test to use on a
spleen.
Many appear to have holes, as the spleen is composed of red
pulp,
which is loosely arrange and large filled with blood, and
while pulp,
which are dense areas of lymphocytes which surround blood
vessels.
While there may be processes which accentuate this pattern
in an
enlarged spleen, such as splenic infarcts, or tumors, it is
very
difficult to tell what is going on by ultrasound, and even
more
difficult to tell by a description of one.
If the spleen is enlarged to the point where it is causing
the ferret
problems in eating or moving around, then have it removed
and
examined by a pathologist. That's the best way to help the
ferret
and get the answers that you need.
With kindest regards,
Bruce Williams, DVM
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