From:
"Meryl Faulkner"
Date: 2008-04-19 18:27:49 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re adrenal disease, surgery, treaments
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
My veterinarian, an exotic animal vet, who I feel really keeps up with
current practices on ferret diseases, always does surgery when adrenal
disease is diagnosed (diagnosed by hair loss or the blood test where
hair loss is minimal). However she routinely starts those ferrets on
lupron three months after surgery. We use the three month depot and we
continue with the lupron every three months - I guess for as long as
the ferret lives. She has mentioned (presumably from her
communications with other vets or the literature)that this slows the
regrowth of tumors in the remaining adrenal or parts of adrenal glands
left that look normal. I wonder if the moderators/ferret vets know if
this is a standard treatment among those vets who treat ferrets with
adrenal disease, or is this just something my veterinarian has
discovered is helpful in slowing the onset of tumor growth?
Meryl
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