From:
Melissa
Date: 2003-01-09 00:01:14 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Update on Giesela and Boris' Liver- re Trouble Pooping, long
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <20030109000114.10164.qmail@web14403.mail.yahoo.com>
--- Mary <marys1000@attbi.com> wrote> Giesela's liver
is the largest he's ever seen - "monstrous" was his
word. he says its taking up 1/3 to 1/2 her abdominal
cavity. She's the one who runs around trying to poop.
his feeling is that this might be a referred pain sort
of thing. there is a capsule over the liver that
stretches. the liver looks like it is pushing on the
spleen (at anyrate the spleen looks strange he said)
which may be pushing on the intestines. the stomach is
being pushed on - up and back.
FWIW, and not to suggest that your vet is in any way
not competent, I wonder if he would be able to tell
whether the overgrowth was due to the spleen or the
liver, if they're running into eachother. Mishka had
an "unusual" lobe of his liver grow sideways like
that, pushing his stomach and all his intestines into
his ribs, and eventually causing him to be unable to
eat. On the x-rays, the vet had no idea what it was
because of the weird way the lobe had grown, and that
it was not the lobe that usually gets big in ferrets.
Of course, I also had one whose liver did this - but
it grew "out" so that you could actually see it when
she ate...that happened very rapidly, like in 2 or 3
weeks, and there was nothing that could be done to
remove the growth.
Regardless, when you're at the point where the animal
can't eat properly because of the size of the growth,
it's probably time to go in and see if part of it can
be removed, because the quality of life is usually
getting to be pretty compromised at that point.
Best Wishes,
Melissa
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