From:
Ferret Wise Shelter
Date: 2003-03-31 02:05:56 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] insulinoma meds
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-Id: <5.1.1.6.2.20030330210334.0275ac70@mail.usaexpress.net>
Lynn Barker wrote: <SNIP>
At 05:00 PM 3/30/03 -0800, you wrote:
>I have a 4 yr old MF ferret,Mitzi that had a second
>bilateral adrenalectomy on Feb. 3rd 2003. Her blood
>work before surgery showed a BG of 70 and we had a
>suspicion of insulinoma, so when the vet was in
>cryoing the right side again she looked over the
>pancreas thoroughly and found no nodules.
Hi Lynn,
I sure would lie a vets input here but I have been thorough this with
several ferrets-- no detectable nodules... one upon necropsy ( common BG
was 42-46) had islet cells on the mesentary...
how common is it for these kids to have islet cells in other places which
effect BG levels? Has anyone else had these findings?
Alicia D.
www.ferretwise.org