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Old 01-10-2010, 10:33 PM   #29
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Originally Posted by AnnaCraig View Post
I have really terrible news

I use "gmail" for my email, and there is an archive button. I remembered that my dad had emailed me the numbers when we found out about it.
Here is what he had said:

"I called Dr. Crouch. He got the lab results back. Muffy definitely has a liver problem. The normal reading on an empty stomach is 7 or less. Muffy's was 15. They fed her and tested her again. After food, the normal reading is 15 or less. Muffy's was 140!"

So it looks like she most likely does have a liver shunt.
possibly a shunt then. The pre is not too horrible but the post being over 100 I would put on low protein diet and retest in 6 months if you cannot do the scintigraphy which is about $390 here in california
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