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From: miamiferret
Date: 2002-04-03 07:26:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Unclear diagnosis

One of my ferrets, Max had some difficulty urinating and had some
blood in the urine. He definitely had some hair loss too, so we went
in to remove the affected adrenal. When my vet got in there, she
found his bladder wall thickened and the entire bladder was
flattened. She took a tissue sample and also removed his left
adrenal. The results of the biopsy of the bladder tissue came back
Lymphoma.

Max was in real bad shape and was put to sleep the next day. He was
peeing blood and was in terrible pain. We didn't see any chance for
improvement and thought this was the best for him.

Still, in most cases, I would tend to think adrenal problems when
there's difficulty urinating in a male ferret. They don't all show
hair loss. Get a definite diagnosis on the Lymphoma. Even then, I
don't know if I'd rule out adrenal disease.

mike

--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "ahinton" <ahinton@s...> wrote:
> Could the straining to urinate be a symptom of lymphoma? There is
often urine in the litterbox, but sometimes he'll spend a half a
minute straining and not much comes out. There has been no agression
or hair loss