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Originally Posted by Brodies Mommy  Hello
My baby Brodie is 8 months old. He was crying in pain and hadn't peed the other day for an extended period of time so I brought him to the emergency room at 4am. The man there was mean to mean when I told him Brodie's belly felt bloated - he told me "yorkie's don't get bloat". I took Brodie out of his travel bag, he felt his belly and told me the dog was probably just constipated, he could run xrays but he recommended I just go home. I took Brodie home and proceeded to listen to him scream for 4 more hours before my normal vet opened. I brought Brodie in first thing and my vet felt his belly and said Brodie had an extremely bloated bladder. I explained to him what I had told the individual the night before and he said Brodie was lethargic because the urine was poisoning him. He took Brodie's temperature and it was low as well. He found it odd that a dog so young would have a blockage but said they had seen it before in a dog four months old. He took Brodie, sedated him, cath-ed him and drained the urine. The urine was extremely bloody and Brodie did have a blockage. The vet xrayed to look for stones but didn't find any in the xray so sent the urine in to be analyzed for crystals. He also sent in blood to be tested. Brodie was put on an IV, pain medicine and an antibiotic.
This morning Brodie's tests results came back - his liver and kidney enzymes were elevated (they weren't sure if it was due to being blocked up though so are rerunning the blood work), the urine analysis came back and there wasn't a very high concentration of crystals so they are concerned that it could be because of a liver or kidney issue. They informed me Brodie has been really chowing down this morning and seemed very pleased to be getting food, but they are keeping him on an IV all day today and probably overnight as well. Today they are running an ultrasound to check for stones that couldn't be seen with the xray and to exam the liver. My vet said it is unlikely that he has a liver shunt as he has none of the other symptoms - drooling, head pushing, slowness.
Has anyone else had these issues? What could be going on with my poor baby? I really want him better and to be able to take him home it is so horrible having an empty house and to know he is in a cage alone thinking I left him.  |
this sounds like liver shunt to me
get the pre and post bile acid test done asap - is he on a high protein diet? If so get him on 18% protein diet as sounds like he is not processing the proteins well. Join this group
Liver_Shunt_And_MVD_Support@yahoogroups.com you will learn alot
they do not have to have all the symptoms of liver shunt to have a shunt. Some dogs have no symptoms so you need to check this out asap. Alot of vets are not real knowledgeable of liver shunt and it runs in 38% of yorkies so it is very common so you need to have the pre and post bile acid done to rule this out - if bile acids over 100 then very likley it could be a shunt
also unless the tech is real good it is VERY HARD to detect a shunt on ultrasound