Message Number: SG2477 | New FHL Archives SearchFrom: Ferrethealer@aol.com
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:27:50 EST
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Digest 3 Dec 2002 07:21:49 -0000 Issue 164
Message-ID: <147.417c9e5.2b1ed036@aol.com>
In a message dated 12/03/02 2:22:27 AM Eastern Standard Time,
ferrethealth-digest-help@smartgroups.com writes:
> Well- I don't quite understand that post on liver problems either -
> we have had several ferrets diagnosed ( post mortem) with liver cancers
> after surgeries / death.
Ferrets certainly do get liver disease, liver cancers, etc. However, what I
think I remember Dr. Williams referring to was the large number of ferrets
that are diagnosed with liver disease based on moderately elevated liver
enzymes. Ferrets that don't eat or are not eating well, or that are sick in
many different ways, can have elevated liver enzymes and that does not always
(or even often) mean liver disease is the primary culprit. Unfortunately,
many times that is the diagnosis made.
Dr. Ruth
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