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sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2006-02-19 16:49:36 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] RE: Question about Adrenal Tumor & Treatment
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Okay, I goofed. The post arrived saying the left was the huge one. That is virtually never heard of so I figured that the usual had occurred and the sides had been switched. So, now I am writing a mea culpa post. Usually, we get letters back saying "Thanks! I confused the sides." In fact, I think this is the first one I have encountered who had a left that was involved with the Vena Cava and Liver, which is what made it so extreme that I assumed it was among the rest. Sorry. I'm just a bit tired these days, and should have held the post and asked Mare first.
Author wrote:
> We recently had one of our rescues in for adrenal surgery. What the vet found was
> rather disturbing for us.
> Tweek is an approximately 4 year old sable female, who came to us via our vet after
> her original owners brought her in for euthanasia.
> When the vet did surgery, he said that her R adrenal gland was huge, it
> encompasses her Vena Cava and has spread to her liver. He said the tumor on the
> gland was so large, that he couldn't find her L adrenal at all. So he sewed her up and
> sent her back to us to die.
> Now, my question. When a ferret has surgery for adrenal disease, and the vet feels
> that nothing can be done, will placing them on sublingual melatonin (since the
> implants aren't working & at this time we can't afford the lupron) help? Also, if she is
> placed on prednisolone, will it help slow the progress of the tumor on the liver
> down?
> The vet didn't send anything out for pathology as he felt the tumors were
> Lymphosarcoma. It that normal in an otherwise healthy ferret?
> Mary
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