From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2008-01-23 08:34:03 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Fozzy, 6 yrs old, with insulinoma.
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, leo smith <leo5569@...> wrote:
>
> evertime i have given pred it was 2 times a day once
> in the am once in the pm? my maxie lived 2 more years
> after going on pred and she lived to almost 8.5 years
>
That is longer than usual, but not a stand-alone case. Mike
Janke had one like that, too.
A study abstract is below.
For those not used to math terms. Mean means "average":
BEGIN QUOTE
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.
PMID: 9826281 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
END QUOTE
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