Monitors do not like to die. They are almost impossible to kill. When they die, they are normally skinny, bony bags of skin. They fight death to a degree unknown(rare) to humans.

Except for organ damage. A common cause of healthy appearing monitors just rolling over dead is organ damage. In most cases, Kidney damage. Monitors normally live a month or so after kidney failure. Liver damage is another common cause of death, but it normally causes a lingering death.

Sometimes kidney damage causes symtoms like swollen limbs. But not always.

You can take them to a vet, and may if your lucky, get some accurate cause of their death, but most likely they will be of no help. As there are very few experienced vets in this field. They will normally find some damage and call that the cause of death. The problem is, they do not look deep enough. They take the first abnormal sign and assign blame there.

Its my personal opinion, all or nearly all wild caught monitors, have suffered some type of organ damage. Either from extreme torture, the conditions of capture and transfer. Or from being treated to prevent these tortured individuals from dying on them(only to die on you)

You may want to ask your doctor(on your next visit) how wise it is to treat extremely dehydrated humans for parasites & such. Without returning them to normal fluid levels. Then ask about treating for bacteria, in the same conditions. I hope the doc tells you, the patient should be stable first. That is not done with monitors. They are treated by the exporters/importers/middlemen, mainly when they are in poor(compromised) condition. Not a wise thing to do, if you want the patient to live a normal life. Cheers

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