what concerns me is they say exploratory surgery and you do not need this to determine liver shunt - the three best test are all non surgery based - the only way i would do liver biopsy for mvd is if the dog was being spayed then they have the dog open to do this otherwise i would not as the other tests are real good indicators of mvd and mvd can be treated with low protein only and does not require surgery only liver shunt does so at this point you need to know what the true bile acids are as what you have is just a waste of your money quite honestly and I would tell the vet to throw out the snap tests and not use them and send to labs as she is wasting peoples money by doing a test that is inconclusive. If she did the lab bile acids you would know where you are but because they did not do this they wasted your time, money, and stressed out the dog for an inaccurate assessment in my opinion as no vet should ever use a snap bile acid as it is not conclusive and why run a test that is inconclusive when you can run real easy a conclusive one for a pet owner
sorry this just makes me mad when vets waste peoples money with diagnostics as this happened to me and i was 20k plus in vet bills for tests that were a waste so this really burns me - I believe in doing the most accurate test for the problem and doing it right the first time |