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Originally Posted by Sashabear0430  what are your dogs' symptoms? |
are you going to the city of hope in los angeles to a woman internal medicine specialist there ? If so the surgery is 4-6k there as my friend has a yorkie that had liver shunt and went there first and flew to dr tobias to have surgery as much cheaper and this person did surgeries in new york but none here and she did not feel comfortable plus the cost was way too high. Her dog was one years old and she came home and her dog was acting spaced out like she did not know her and drooling - just as you described -- trust me if the bile acids are over 100 it is a shunt
Her dog was fine until she was about one year old and starting showing the signs. Another dog on here he just went to tobias as he is 3 years old and due to not having symptoms now has 3 or 4 shunts and upon tobias opening him up now cannot have repair as he probably started with one shunt but it blew into 3 or 4 so they now cannot repair so trust me again you want it done early so it is only one shunt. What happens is the blood gets to the heart and is not cleaned by liver so heart pushes it back to liver and blows more shunts as time goes on of doing this so the early the diagnoses the better and the earlier the repair the better as they can live a longer life after repair
also if your dog is already having symptoms and it is a liver shunt it is only going to get worse and you want this surgery done when the dog is as little symptom as possible not when they are full blown sick
the stronger they are the easier the surgery will be on them