From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2007-08-25 22:12:31 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: New update and need help for friends ferret PLEASE, could really use vet input too
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
Sudden knots on the face can indicate a dental abscess.
As Dr. Williams has already said, this ferret needs
blood work and it also looks like removing the
insulinoma growths (or doing a partial pancreatomy)
may be best since there is not enough response to
Pred.
(Did you check, BTW, to make sure that it is
Prednisolone rather than Prednisone since Prednisone
will not work as well if the liver also happens to be
compromised?)
BEGIN QUOTED ABSTRACT
J Am Anim Hosp Assoc. 1998 Nov-Dec;34(6):471-5. Links
Insulinoma in the ferret: clinical findings and treatment
comparison of 66 cases.
Weiss CA, Williams BH, Scott MV.
Potomac Animal Hospital, Maryland 20854, USA.
The clinical signs and surgical findings were reported for
66 ferrets with insulinomas confirmed histologically. All
of the ferrets were treated with one of three modalities,
and disease-free intervals and survival times were
gathered to determine the most effective treatment. The
three treatment groups included 10 ferrets treated
medically, 27 ferrets treated with pancreatic
nodulectomy, and 29 ferrets treated with pancreatic
nodulectomy combined with a partial pancreatectomy.
The mean disease-free intervals for each group were
22, 234, and 365 days, respectively. The mean survival
times for each group were 186, 456, and 668 days,
respectively. Based upon the data, recommendations
were made for treating insulinoma in the ferret.
END QUOTE
For full text:
http://www.jaaha.org/cgi/reprint/34/6/471
If there is a dental abscess then a tooth may also need
to be extracted and perhaps that could done at the same time.
Sukie (not a vet)
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http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
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