From:
"Sue Liszewski"
Date: 2003-12-15 06:32:31 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] Re: o.p-DDD Mitotane Lysodren
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <Law12-F107hOwxC1z260003cd1f@hotmail.com>
It' the same. Lysodren is the trade name and op ddd Mitotane is the generic
name.
>From: sukiec@optonline.net
>Reply-To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: o.p-DDD Mitotane Lysodren
>Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 04:44:09 +0000 (GMT)
>
>Lysodren USED to be used, but was mostly dropped due to problems. You can
>actually find a lot about its past use in assorted archives.
>
>For some ferrets it just didn't work (possibly because adrenal disease in
>ferrets is not like Cushings -- another thing which can be looked up in
>archives for detail explanatiojns of the differences), while in some it
>caused suc serious adrenal atrophy that Addison's Crises would result.
>
>Back when there weren't alternatives Lysodren was an approach to consider,
>but these days there are better options.
>
>I CAN say that the combo of Lysodren and Prednisone was useful for a
>protracted time (over a year) for a ferret of our's over 10 years back who
>at an advanced age had lymphoma which was based partly in an adrenal gland,
>but that is not your typical adrenal case and even then he may perhaps have
>been unusual. BUT -- he DID wind up Addisonian down the road since it
>atrophied his healthy gland and his bad one came out later... (Thank
>goodness for Florinef, Pred, and experimentation.)
>
>To begin you can start looking in
>http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org
>and
>http://listserv.cuny.edu/archives/ferret-search.html
>
>Examples (all from vets):
>http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind9605&L=ferret-search&P=R24306
>http://listserv.cuny.edu/Scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0101&L=ferret-search&P=R21160
>http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=YG7815
>http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=YG3473
>http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=YG1137
>http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=YG1127
>http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=SG3059
>http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=YG11338
>http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=YG1952
>http://fhl.sonic-weasel.org/browse.php?msg=YG1928
>etcetera
>
>I do NOT know if o.p-DDD Mitotane Lysodren differs from Lysodren; if so, I
>am curious to learn, also.
>
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