Laura Dobson Webboard User Reg: 03-16-2008
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She's dead.
Quick version, her heart burst. It was very quick. She was barking at a turtle she cornered in the yard, her barks went to a yelp and she was down on the ground and dead with in two minutes. They are doing pathology on her also, and sending more tissue from the rat to the state lab (the rat had sever bacterial infection). He doesn't know if it was a tumor or enlarged lymph node in the heart.
They may or may not be related. We are back to square one on cause of death.
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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I hope so too, Michael. I came up with Lepto too, with the species-cross, the rats, the spots, and the breath (all different searches, and all included Lepto in the results possibilities). (Mentioned on page 3 and page 4 here.)
I'm betting that the lab and the vet did or will look seriously into Lepto.
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.... sending more tissue from the rat to the state lab (the rat had sever bacterial infection).
Leptospirosis is a virus that invades the liver, causing multiple small lesions. .... When the liver is damaged in any way, it's also more susceptible to bacterial infections. A damaged liver cannot ward off infection from even a normal load of bacteria.
Michael's link (above) discusses the heart connection.
It also mentions something the the minimal-vax folks here already know: Most lepto strains have no vax. The most common do not. And the most-used vax contains the wrong serovars.
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Laura, you may want to post here http://leerburg.com/webboard/topiclist.php?forum_id=151 at " Dogs who have crossed to the other side" and please feel free to include a photo of your beloved girl. I know I would like to see her, if you have one.
I know no one here wants the death of your beautiful girl to get "lost" in this thread about diagnosis.
I also want to say that I believe this thread, like all medical-mystery threads, will save another dog some day because of the owner having read it.
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