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From: Andrea
Date: 2012-03-14 20:12:22 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] Mass in chest area
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com

Hi Jeff,

Shane did have an ultrasound (sorry, neglected to add that).  They did
do a full abdominal one (they were originally looking at his
intestines), and thats when they found the chest mass.  The only other
thing they found were a couple lymph nodes enlarged. 



I ended up bringing Shane into the emergency vets, his breathing was
more rapid.  They have him in oxygen right now.  They advised not doing
the ultrasound guided aspirate, because the vet said even just
physically examining him, his respiration increased pretty dramatically,
and they are afraid something that invasive as the US aspirate might be
too much for him.  Plus along with most likely not getting correct
results from him already being on the pred... they wouldn't recommend
it. 



Shane is getting the Pred twice a day.  I will ask them about increasing it. 



You brought up a good point about trying to get an aspirate from
someplace else... even if there were no other masses found, I wonder why
the vets did not suggest trying to get a sample from one of his
enlarged nymph nodes?  Will ask them about that, but now I'm concerned
that too would be too much for him.


I don't know if/how much his pred can be increased (he's at his
highest weight at 2.6 lbs) or I think my only other option at this point
is to just try some type of chemo med. 



Thanks,

Andrea and Shane

--- On Wed, 3/14/12, Jeff <inner.harmony@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Andrea, I think there’s a good chance that you’re not looking at a ‘pred belly’, but instead, a distended belly caused by tumors.  That’s a low dose of pred if he’s getting it once a day, and that alone is very unlikely to cause a big ‘pred belly’ in 3 months.  Often times there is not just one mass, but several, affecting multiple organs.  I wonder why you would not do an ultrasound of the whole abdominal area, rather than focusing on trying to get an aspirate from the one tumor.  An ultrasound can find all or most tumors and measure their size.  This will probably give you much more info than an aspirate of one tumor. 

 


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