An x-ray is not going to show if she has a liver shunt...If anything, they should be doing an ultrasound preferably with doppler to confirm whether or not she has a shunt. And sometimes they can miss it on the ultrasound if they are not experienced. My yorkie, Miko, has an intrahepatic liver shunt that cannot be repaired by surgery...It is managed through diet and medications. He had coccidia and hypoglycemia and some other stuff when he was a pup, but somewhere around 9 months my husband and I decided we wanted to have a bile acid test done. For no real reason other than we had heard of so many yorkies with liver shunts, that we wanted to just get him tested. He had what the vet thought was a UTI when he was about 6 months, but that's it. Well, the weekend before his appt to get his bile acid test, he had a seizure, completely out of nowhere.
I'm just telling you this because there are some cases where sometimes the dogs don't show symptoms. He was and is a very happy energetic dog, no reason to really suspect liver shunt.
I pray that nothing is wrong with your baby, and that the results were just skewed or something.
Try not to work yourself up over this until you have more conclusive information.
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