From:
"Sukie Crandall"
Date: 2008-10-10 02:40:29 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Update: Extreme Weight Gain in Female Ferret?
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
The pituitary produces LH and FSH but NOT the
estrogens (and sometimes androgens) that are
responsible for the symptoms and complications
of adrenal disease.
Now, at times not the entire adrenal gland comes
out. When both have been removed with enough
of the cortical portions that produce cortical
steroids gone then Fludrocort and Prednisolone,
or Percorten and Prednisolone are needed. Some-
times there is enough left to just use Prenisolone,
and sometimes there is enough left to not to not
need either. At times the cortical steroid producing
portions have come out well enough, but not all of
the hormone producing adrenal tissue has come out.
So, long term continuation or return of adrenal
disease symptoms, too high levels of those hormones
on a TN panel, or not needing both Prednisolone AND
either Percorten or Fludrocort can be taken as
indicators that some of the tissue evaded removal --
an easier situation to have arise on the right side, and
certainly at times unavoidable.
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