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To Marilyn:
>Dr. Williams: I wrote you before about the overdose of Vit. A. Now I'm not
>sure if her liver enzymes were off because of the heart condition. She's on
>Enalapril 2X per day and Lasix every other day. She still gets weak in the
>hind quarters occasionally, but overall is very much improved. Just going
>day by day and holding my breath. I can't believe there's so much ferret
>love out there :)
Marilyn - heart trouble will certainly raise liver enzymes - the liver
cells get starved for oxygens and the enzymes simply leak out through their now
porous membranes.
Vit. A toxicity has still never been documented in ferrets, although we
talk about it a lot. In cats - Vitamin A toxicity causes bone lesion, not liver
disease. I have been unable to find any species in which Vitamin A toxicosis
causes liver damage.
The moral to this story - if you get a questionable diagnosis, talk
with someone else about it....
Bruce Williams, DVM Department of Veterinary Pathology
[log in to unmask] Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
(202) 782-2600/2602 Washington, D.C. 20306-6000
[Posted in FML issue 0980]
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