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Originally Posted by lisatodd  i have been trying to learn all i can about liver shunt. i see too many people here who's baby has it and it concerns me.
now b/c her test came back high.....does this mean she has liver shunt or is she just a carrier? |
Here's the deal...
Chloe has always been a very poor eater. I always say that she loathes all food equally. Other than this, she is a perfectly healthy (albeit rather thin), active, energetic, happy dog. So I decided to have a full blood panel done on her, to see what might cause her to not eat.
Everything in her blood work came back really good, except her resting bile acid was 22.6 (it should be under 25). But 22.6 didn't sound too awful bad.
So we did the retest with the fast and post testing. She fasted for over 12 hours, and they took her blood, then she ate, waited two hours and they took her blood again.
Her results were: pre: 210.1, and post 52.1.
The pre, is not a very good indicator, so the post is what is important. If it is over 100, it suggests liver shunt, but the range hers is in suggests MVD (or it could be something else) but there is no way to know without further tests.
In the meantime, I have her on special diet, and she is eating better and she looks like she's plumping up a little.