From:
Steve Austin
Date: 2002-12-03 19:05:44 UTC
Subject: Liver disease
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
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