From:
"DebraJean"
Date: 2007-08-25 22:59:17 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: New update and need help for friends ferret PLEASE, could really use vet input too
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
That's true Sukie, but in the case of Spirit it was not. We waited to
long to do the surgery and we ended up losing him to Squamous Cell
Carcinoma. We had also put Spirit on meds like Julie's friend did
with her ferret, and the swelling did go down a little, but then
became large again. Spirit also had Insulinoma.
Debi
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "Sukie Crandall" <sukie@...>
wrote:
>
> 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)
>
> Recommended ferret health links:
> 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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