From:
"Karen McCabe"
Date: 2010-01-20 06:04:01 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Any tips for a ferret with an enlarged heart?
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, "rhnpat" <rhnpat@...> wrote:
>
> My ferret is 2 1/2 years old. From Rainbow Exotics. He has been coughing for about 4 months and I kept bringing him to the vet in the past 2 months. I got an xray done yesterday and he has been diagnosed with an enlarged heart :( He is now on Lasix and Enacard. I'm starting to think that he was born with this problem because I now remember that a couple of months after i got him (he was 3 months old when i got him) he had that cough but it went away and now here he is 2 1/2 years old and that cough came back but very bad.
>>
This is Cardiomyopathy, and it can be congenital.
Here are a few sources for information....
http://www.ferretcentral.org/faq/med/cardio.html
http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=11+2067&aid=2405
http://veterinarymedicine.dvm360.com/vetmed/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=588992&sk=&date=&pageID=6
Karen McCabe
http://www.cinnamonsprite.net
[There is also a compilation in the Files section of the
FHL
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
and more recent posts can be easily found in the
easily searched FHL Archives
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BTW, when they were having us try reduced salt intake
for Ruffle it turned out to not make a difference. That
is mentioned as a hypothesis in the first link Karen
gives but it did not help her any. That was over 10 years
ago.
--Moderator]
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