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From: mstar@speakeasy.net
Date: 2006-06-07 19:28:43 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] During adrenal surgery my vet spotted a yellow kidney (?!)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com

Short version:

While doing adrenal surgery on my 6.5 yo altered female, the surgeon saw that one of her kidneys was yellow. Biopsy results are pending--he said he had no idea what it was, had never seen anything like it. I searched the list but didn't get any hits. Could anyone suggest what a yellow kidney might mean?

Long version:

My Eris is a 6.5 yo Marshall female. We got her from a shelter at about age 1, and she has been on Lupron since about the age of 2, though it hasn't been working perfectly for the last 2 years and she has a bare tail.

Over the last 6-8 weeks her weight has shot up from about 780g to 900g. When I realized she felt like a little sausage, kind of taut all over, I took her in to my vet. (It's an exotics clinic, they know ferrets well.)

They examined her, thought they felt a mass, and we did an Xray. It revealed that there might be a mass up by the stomach, and the stomach and intestines were shifted a bit. We decided to do an exploratory and hope it was just fat deposits from adrenal disease--and while he was under the hood, he could address the adrenal disease too.

In the end, the mass was just fat deposits which should hopefully begin to correct themselves with the left adrenal gland removed. But the yellow kidney was an unexpected observation and we are waiting for more information. If you have any thoughts... please post. Many thanks in advance.

(Please CC staroscik@gmail.com if you reply, I have been having some mail problems at home. Thanks.)





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