While compared to human or cat surgery, cutting reptiles is still "new", but I wouldn't say it's in infancy. With experience, anesthesia has proven as safe, or safer than the average mammilian scenerio. The biggest challenge for such a case is the loads of off-label drugs necessary. While baytril, panacur, and all the other commonly used drugs are also off-label, anti-rejection drugs have very little herp-related data on them... basically, an educated guess by the veterinarian. So, yes the risk is much higher, but cost aside, why wouldn't you want to give it a shot? There are a multitude of ways to control pain with reptiles and other ways to reduce stress. If the monitor is a good candidate, I say go for it.



Of course the whole veterinary field will benefit from a well documented try.



Ian

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• Kidney transplant for a monitor? - yvonbug, Wed Apr 12 00:03:08 2006
• RE: Kidney transplant for a monitor? - crimsonwolf1313, Wed Apr 12 00:41:22 2006
• RE: Kidney transplant for a monitor? - yvonbug, Wed Apr 12 00:54:49 2006
• RE: Kidney transplant for a monitor? - yvonbug, Thu Apr 13 02:12:31 2006
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• I disagree... - joeysgreen, Sat Apr 15 06:38:27 2006
• RE: Really no offense - FR, Sat Apr 15 10:38:26 2006
• RE: Really no offense - joeysgreen, Sun Apr 16 06:37:42 2006
• RE: Heres your problem - FR, Sun Apr 16 10:16:21 2006
• RE: Heres your problem - yvonbug, Sun Apr 16 17:13:11 2006
• RE: Heres your problem - FR, Sun Apr 16 21:45:24 2006
• We weren't doing a patch job... - yvonbug, Mon Apr 17 02:09:33 2006
• RE: We weren't doing a patch job... - FR, Mon Apr 17 10:33:19 2006
• RE: We weren't doing a patch job... - yvonbug, Mon Apr 17 13:50:26 2006