From:
"Sue Liszewski"
Date: 2006-04-27 22:48:20 UTC
Subject: RE: [ferrethealth] raven surgery results (long)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
IBD is high so food allergy is part of it and depending on what you use
discuss options with your vet. This can cause what you are experiencing.
Pred is useful but dose may need to be adjusted to find the best dose and
there are other options if basic's don't work. All I have time for hope it
helps a bit
Dr. Sue
>From: anaisdog@yahoo.com
>Reply-To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
>Subject: [ferrethealth] raven surgery results (long)
>Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 23:04:56 +0100 (BST)
>
>thanks to the moderators for letting me post this.
>
>I have a 5 yr MF female , Raven, who I had a melatonin chip put in on
>3/4/06. she
>had been chipped
>once before, in June 05 with no ill effects at all at that time. on 3/5, I
>noticed her
>looking lethargic, and by 3/6, all
>that was coming out of her was smelly, green mucous slime. I took her to
>the vet
>on 3/7 (it was the soonest I could get her
>in), where they tested for all parasites and gave her sub q fluids. she's
>had chronic
>diarrhea since 3/6. these are the
>results of her surgery and I was hoping someone could lend an idea. My
>dr's
>opinion is now that she has a food allergy.
>currently, she is being free fed totally ferret and eukanuba feline and
>given 3 tsp
>(about) per day of bob church's chicken
>gravy recipe (more, if she'd eat it). the only that has changed in her
>diet is before
>this happened, I let her eat science diet light / feline but I've
>since removed it from her diet. Note, in the past two days, I tried giving
>her sd
>feline z/d, since it is supposed to be
>hypoallergenic, and the messy diarrhea, as opposed
>to the just not well formed diarrhea is back. could she be allergic to all
>science diet
>foods?
>
>
>she's been on, in various combinations, the following medications:
>pedipred
>carafate
>flagyl
>amoixicilian
>metrondiazole
>baytril
>viokase
>
>During the surgery, he took out her left adrenal and did a biopsy on her
>intestines,
>stomach, pancreas, lymph nodes and liver. These are the
>results. she had, according to him, the angriest pancreas ever.
>
>Her condition was chronic diarrhea, with lethargy. I've just started using
>the Viokase
>and she seems to be on the upswing. she's on 1/4 of a 8mg
>tablet, at least 3 times a day, given in chicken gravy. I really need
>some advice,
>please.
>
>Biopsy results
>
>Souce/History - Chronic diarrhea
>microscopic description - 1. Liver: the portal regions of the liver
>appear to be
>within normal limits. Hepatocytes exhibit
>minimal microvesicular-type degeneration. There i s miled intracellular
>biliary
>pigment retention.
> 2. Intestine: There is a mild increase in intraepithelial
>lymphocyctes. There are mild scattered accummulations
>scattered accumulations of plasma cells and eosinophilis in the superficial
>lamina
>propria. Mild edema and vascular congestion are present.
> 3. Adrenal Gland: there is scattered nodular hyperplasia within the
>adrenal cortex.
> 4. Pancreas: There are no significant microscopic lesions.
> 5. Stomach: There are no significant microscopic lesions.
> 6. Lymph node: There is a mild scattered cystic degeneration. This
>is incidental age-related finding in the ferret.
>
>Diagnosis - 1. Liver degeneration, microvesticular-type, mild with
>attendant
>cholestasis.
> 2. Adrenal Gland: Nodular hyperplasia, multicentric
> 3. Intestines: enteritis, lymphoplasmacytic and eosinophilic variant,
>mild, widespread, chronic
> 4. Stomach: essentially, normal tissue
> 5. liver: cycstic degeneration, incidental
>
>Comments - 1. Liver - the degenerative chagnes found in the liver are
>nonspecific
>lesions, consistent with the response to the systemic metabolic
> disturbances in this patient.
> Correlation of these findings with the clinical history, physical
>findings,
>and other diagonostic data will be important in
> determining contributory factors for this patient.
> No evidence of other specific predisposing factors or neoplasia was found
>in the tissue sections examined/
>
> 2. Adrenal Gland: excision of the mass appears complete. Local
>recurrence is not aticipated. There was no evidence of neoplasia in
> the sections examined.
> Adrenocortial hyperplasia, adrenocortical adenoma and
>adrenocortical carcinoma are all relatively common lesions in the aged
>ferret
> adrenal gland. these lesions are often associated with excessive
>production of adrenocortical sex steriods. Clinically, these lesions
> are associated with vulvar swelling the females, endocrine
>dermathopathy and/or behavioral or reproductive abnormalities.
> Recurrence of clinical signs in these patients may be due to the
>development of asynchronous simimlar lesions in the contralateral adrenal
> gland.
>
> 3. Intestines: the reactive and inflammatory changes noted are non-
>specific, but the mild eosinophilic component can be seen in association
>with
> underlying allergic/hypersensitivity disorders. Food allergies are the
>primary differntial, however, endopoarasitism should be
> ruled out through other ancillary diagnostic studies.
>
> No evidence of other specific predisosing factors or neoplasia was found
>in the tissue sections examined.
>
> 4. Pancreas: No evidence of specific predisposing factors, significant
>inflammation or neoplasia was found in the tissue sections examined.
>
> 5. lymph node: cystic degeneration is an incidental age-related finding
>in ferret in lymph nodes
>
> no evidence of specific predisposing factors, significant inflammation or
>neoplasia was found in the tissue sections examined.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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