From:
"Sue Liszewski"
Date: 2004-02-05 17:37:13 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] death from adrenal surgery
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <LAW12-F9454QfeLKVEn00050d41@hotmail.com>
DIC stands for Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation. Basically it is when
then body uses up all of its clotting factors really fast and they can no
longer plug up bleeds and the like and can hemorrhage out and die. It can
be caused by many things. Ferrets often have high PCV's. The 2 things I
wonder is what was it before the surgery and was your ferret on IV fluids
when in for surgery?
Dr. Sue
>From: "Amy Hartnett" <ahartnett@cox.net>
>Reply-To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>To: <ferrethealth@smartgroups.com>
>Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] death from adrenal surgery
>Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 22:55:52 -0700
>
>Actually, the vet doesn't know the cause of death. He was just guessing
>that
>it was a blood clot to the brain. The main thing he was concerned about was
>the high pcv count, he never saw that before and couldn't find any
>references of a ferret having that. The tumor was removed easily so it
>wouldn't be from the surgery itself.
>
>When I saw her she knew who I was because she held on to my finger and
>turned her head when I moved across the room. I thought she didn't know I
>was there until she did that. I don't know when she actually would have
>died
>on her own; she was suffering so much I had her euthanized so it was
>different than with Lancelot. The vet didn't know what was causing the GI
>bleeding either.
>
>I thought her symptoms sounded like adrenal crisis - I read they start
>around 12 hrs. after surgery and it usually happens when large tumors are
>removed, even if the other adrenal isn't atrophied. What is DIC? I've never
>heard of that. Would that cause the other symptoms too - the weakness,
>twitches, crying, low glucose, high pcvs? Don't vets normally do a
>necroscopy when the cause of death is unknown and they have permission from
>the owner?
>
>Thanks so much for your help.
>
>
>
>
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