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Looking for Trent Policky!
I am looking for a GGA member whose address
changed. His Gekko and Chit Chats were returned. Trent if you are
out there, e-mail me offline. If anyone knows Trent Policky and can help
me locate him, e-mail me off-line.
Leann Christenson
Membership Secretary
Global
Gecko Association
www.gekkota.com
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 2:47
PM
Subject: [gecko]Re: Necropsy mystery
(sorry, long) (Denise Wales)
Denise,
Sorry for your loss.
First off, you definitely did the right thing
having the animal necropsied. By doing so you were able to rule out
infectious problems like cryptosporidium, etc that could possibly harm the
rest of your geckos. Necropsies in reptiles can sometimes be
disappointing in that you can't nail down exactly what caused the illness or
death. The finding you described was most likely caused by having a fat
(or normal sized) gecko that suddenly went anorexic. The body
starts breaking down fat to survive and caused the resultant hepatic lipidosis
that was seen.
I'm not sure what pathologist your vet used but
Chris Schiller is one of the best I've ever seen for reptiles. (not
sure if she's still with All Creatures Pathology or not anymore)
I would think that your gecko had some sort of
underlying metabolic illness with the lipidosis as a resultant problem, but
that is 100% conjecture on my part. It's always hard to not be able
to get a concrete answer, but I always figure that I'm protecting the
rest of my collection by ruling out possible infectious
problems.
Chris
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