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dwerten · 12-17-2009, 08:12 AM

a yorkie owner on here i helped and we talked on phone his dog was 4 had no symptoms at all of liver shunt. He went in for diarhea they found stones and his bile acids were high as well as ALT so they did ultrasound and due to stones they wanted to check for shunt as they thought they saw a shunt. He went to ut to dr tobias and had the surgery and turned out he had 3 shunts so they could not do the constrictor on him so he has to be on low protein diet so it is not uncommon that shunts can show up later on in a dog with no symptoms. What happens is the body adapts and blows out more shunts so why this dog had more than on shunt as the body adapted. Now had this dog had seizures, etc and they found it early on then they could have repaired it and the other two shunts may not have appeared but the dog had NO symptoms until the stones showed up by the dog having some diarhea issues. I was shocked myself as i thought it would only be in dogs with seizures etc so i asked my internal medicine specialist and she said she sees it many times that they show up later in life. Once the liver is ruled out for yoda by bile acid testing then it could just be too high protein in diet that caused the stones.

12-17-2009, 08:12 AM	#80
dwerten BANNED! Join Date: May 2007 Location: USA Posts: 11,073	a yorkie owner on here i helped and we talked on phone his dog was 4 had no symptoms at all of liver shunt. He went in for diarhea they found stones and his bile acids were high as well as ALT so they did ultrasound and due to stones they wanted to check for shunt as they thought they saw a shunt. He went to ut to dr tobias and had the surgery and turned out he had 3 shunts so they could not do the constrictor on him so he has to be on low protein diet so it is not uncommon that shunts can show up later on in a dog with no symptoms. What happens is the body adapts and blows out more shunts so why this dog had more than on shunt as the body adapted. Now had this dog had seizures, etc and they found it early on then they could have repaired it and the other two shunts may not have appeared but the dog had NO symptoms until the stones showed up by the dog having some diarhea issues. I was shocked myself as i thought it would only be in dogs with seizures etc so i asked my internal medicine specialist and she said she sees it many times that they show up later in life. Once the liver is ruled out for yoda by bile acid testing then it could just be too high protein in diet that caused the stones.