From:
mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: 2003-04-20 12:48:38 UTC
Subject: ECE vs. liver values
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <24311187.1050842918512.JavaMail.root@scandium>
Here's the link that I believe Sukie wanted you to see. This is Dr. Williams page on ECE. Unfortunately, the server appears to be down at the moment and I've had random problems accessing the site over the last few weeks. So if it doesn't work for you, try again later.
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/ECE/ECE.html
As Dr. Williams has stated many, many times, simply not eating as the result of any illness will caused skewed liver values. That said, it seems that diagnosing ECE based solely on liver values is flawed.
mike
Author wrote:
She said the hepatitis was causing the vomiting. Is this not correct? She said that testing for high liver enzymes would determine if the ferret had ECE or not.