From:
dr_bruce_williams
Date: 2002-01-09 23:48:00 UTC
Subject: Re: Cystic Kidney
--- In Ferret-Health-list@y..., "Sirron" <sirron@e...> wrote:
>
> Would someone explain to me in laymen language what a cystic kidney
is?
A cystic kidney has a large fluid filled hole - or multiple ones in
it. They don't draining to the outside, and the remainder of the
kidney functions normally. But if the amount of kidney replaced by
this cyst exceeds 66%, the normal function of the kidney is impaired
(however, if the other kidney is normal, the ferret will do fine.)
With kindest regards,
Bruce Williams, dVM