[magicgenie]

I'm getting quite an education these past few days. From what I can gather, Protein C was developed at Cornell and is a fairly new way to neasure blood flow through a shunt vein. Not being medically trained some of this is way over my head. Some people seem to favor it as an intermediate step before going on to ultrasound and scintigraphy. I've read where some pet owners are printing out the info from Cornell on protein C and taking it to their vets. The result is supposed to distinguish shunt from MVD. Vaccine reaction is another thing I keep stumbling upon during this research but I'm not getting much on long term consequences. I've read so much stuff that now I'm forgetting where I learned what. Somewhere I read something about Yorkies possibly tending towards a mild MVD that gets mistaken for shunt and that for them is probably quite normal and is requires only slight dietary adjustment.