I guess I was just assuming people know; with Addison's the Fludrocort/Florinef or Percorten is used in conjunction with a steroid like Prednisolone. The Prednisolone helps with fluid regulation. The Percorten or Fludrocort/Florinef helps with maintaining proper electrolyte levels and balance (essential for life). --- Jeff, you will find some past FHL posts on that approach. I think that one of Katherine's vets used later stage insulinoma surgery pretty often. Also: http://www.afip.org/ferrets/PDF/insulinoma.pdf and (I can't search now but you can work forward from this earlier notation.): > Weiss CA, Williams BH, Scott MV. > Related Articles, Links > > Insulinoma in the ferret: clinical findings and treatment > comparison of 66 cases. > J Am Anim Hosp Assoc. 1998 Nov-Dec;34(6):471-5. > PMID: 9826281 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] > >Hopefully, this will give you a direct link: > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?field=UID&db=PubMed&term=9826281 > >Otherwise, search the way that I did. > It did not show the full article but if you select the text icon you will get: >The clinical signs and surgical findings were reported for 66 ferrets >with insulinomas confirmed histologically. All of the ferrets were >treated with one of three modalities, and disease- free intervals >and survival times were gathered to determine the most effective >treatment. The three treatment groups included 10 ferrets treated >medically, 27 ferrets treated with pancreatic nodulectomy, and 29 >ferrets treated with pancreatic nodulectomy combined with a partial >pancreatectomy. The mean disease-free intervals for each group were >22, 234, and 365 days, respectively. The mean survival times for each >group were 186, 456, and 668 days, respectively. Based upon the data, >recommendations were made for treating insulinoma in the ferret. > >PMID: 9826281 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Sukie (not a vet) Current FHL address: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth People can join there or can send a blank mail to the automated joining address: [log in to unmask] and then follow the directions. (The second is recommended for those having problems with Yahoogroups web settings, and afterward send a blank mail from your subscribed address to [log in to unmask] to get the digest instead of individual mails. ) Recommended ferret health links: http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/ http://ferrethealth.org/archive/ http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/ http://www.ferretcongress.org/ http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml [Posted in FML 5495]