Message Number: SG2471 | New FHL Archives SearchFrom: Steve Austin
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 14:05:44 -0500
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Subject: Liver disease
Message-ID: <32100456.1038944764438.JavaMail.nobody@strontium>
In late cirrhosis in humans the liver is too gone to produce
the high enzymes, so I suppose this is a possibility.
Usually there will be other signs, jaundice, edema
and ascites ( fluid filled abdomen).
Sorry for your loss.
Patty
> My ferret died that evening so I had a necropsy performed. The
> diagnosis was cirrhosis of the liver (from a nationally recognized
> ferret pathologist). I am told that his liver was in such bad shape
> that it couldn't produce sufficient quantities of abnormal
> (enzymes?) to make the test results show the problem.
>
> Has anyone heard of this sort of skewed results? I hadn't.
>
> -Carla
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