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Originally Posted by sallen15  Hi everyone, I'm sure some of you remembered me posting about my sister's three year-old male Yorkie Bogey and his seizures. Well on his first acid bile test the results were 15.4 on a normal scale of 15. Well initially one would think it wasn't his liver but my sister took him to the specialist anyway. They performed an ultrasound and another acid bile test.
On his second Acid bile test his results came back at 49.9 on a scale of 15. In addition, the vet said that it sounded like he had a lot of "sludge" in his liver. He goes in next Monday for a surgery consultation, and if necessary they will go in a perform a liver biopsy on Tuesday. Otherwise he will be put on medicine if they don't think the biopsy is necessary.
Has anyone ever had to go through this with their yorkie? is a liver biopsy the first step to having to get liver shunt surgery? |
go to this website
http://www.avmi.net/- i would do the scintigraphy first as that is more accurate and less invasive than liver biopsy unless they have been fixed and opening up anyway. There are only a few specialists that do it. I would call facility above and see where closest person to you is that can do this test.
Join this
group--Liver_Shunt_And_MVD_Support@yahoogroups.com- they are the best and most resourceful about this and know what type of diet and supplements to keep liver healthy.
my dee dee has mvd pre was 3 and post 54.9