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Originally Posted by highlanderswear  My vet told me the surgery for liver shunt was usually not effective. Rather than put my 2 year old through this surgery, he was put down before he began to suffer horribly.
I would like to know how your Yorkies did after their surgery? Did it restore them to health?
I sickens me to think I could have saved my baby. |
I am so sorry about your baby.
Extrahepatic shunts (the ones that are outside the liver and most common in Yorkies) are surgically corrected regularly. University of Tennessee has about an 85% success rate I think and less than a 5% mortality rate.