From:
"kazpat1@juno.com"
Date: 2005-01-15 13:16:28 UTC
Subject: Please give me your advice re: lymphoma
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-Id: <20050115.051648.2679.164455@webmail22.lax.untd.com>
where are you located? By the lab results I am thinking not the US.
The WBC itself is not the only important number, what helps is the differential of the WBC- the % of lymphs, polys, monos,etc.
In the US the WBC is in slightly different units, so that the number is by 10 (3) cm3 not 10 (2)uL , meaning that your number I don't know how to interpret without some kind of conversion to US units.
By the symptoms, you may want to consider an exploratory surgery, if a true mass is found a biopsy is the only way to really be sure is lymphoma. You may be suprised and find a hairball or foreign body in the stomach and this would then be removed. If all is normal in the stomach, an intestinal biopsy or anything found abnormal (like swollen lymph nodes around the intestines can be biopsied to confirm a diagnosis)
It just would be a shame to say the ferret has not much time left if
the true findings are something treatable by surgery.
here is also a link to interpreting lab values in ferrets, although in US units:
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/Clin_Path/ClinPath.html
and this one
http://www.ferretcentral.org/faq/part5.html#med_numbers
Patty
-- yuriko141@hotmail.com wrote:
Currently, no lymph nodes swollen, no tumor were found, and she became very energetic again just like before. She is taking a little bid of three kinds of medicine; steroid, anti-cancer, and something to stop stomach inflammation once a day. The doctor said it is very very small quantity, and will watch the change in the blood value.
Right now, there are 3 unusual things were found in her blood:
WBC: 126H X10(2) uL
GPT: 367 IU/L
TP: 9.0
I still cannot believe she is dying. Is there any way to help? If there are some lymphocytes in blood, is it really lymphoma?? Are there any cases to recover completely from this disease??
YURIKO