From:
"Roger Vaughn"
Date: 2004-02-05 04:27:48 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] death from adrenal surgery
To: <ferrethealth@smartgroups.com>
Message-ID: <50481.192.168.132.39.1075955268.squirrel@mail.seaconinc.com>
We had one who died from a blood clot after adrenal surgery, but that
was within a couple of hours after waking up - not the next day. More
importantly, the clotting was most likely caused by repeated clamping
as the surgeon repaired his vena cava. It doesn't sound like Brandy
had the kind of intensive vascular surgery that would induce clotting.
But, I'm not a vet, I could be wrong about that.
Also, in Lancelot's case, death was pretty much immediate - within the
few minutes between checks by the vet, the had clot hit his brain and
he was already brain-stem breathing and essentially brain dead. I
imagine you may get slightly different symptoms from a clot lodging in
different parts of the brain, but you'll essentially see stroke-like
symptoms no matter what. I'm not sure how this would cause GI
bleeding unless a clot somehow causes the brain to overstimulate the
stomach. (Is that even possible?)
Could Brandy have been the victim of DIC - disseminated intravascular
coagulation - where the blood sort of spontaneously gels and clots all
over the body at once? This occasionally happens to ferrets after
surgery, for no known reason.
roger