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Originally Posted by Ladymom  Who besides one YT member with no medical background told you that? It is part of the current protocol recommended by Dr. Center, one of the leading experts on liver disease in the country. |
Did I say ONE person told me? No. A few people have. I would trust Dr. Tobias more with information than any other liver disease expert. Here is waht Dr. Tobias says about Protein C tests:
Protein C Test
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Dr. Karen Tobias
Question: How good is the Protein C test?
Answer: We're re-evaluating the Protein C test here at UT. In the original Cornell paper, normal dogs had Protein C activity between about 70% and 130%; 95% of dogs with MVD/CPH (microvascular dysplasia secondary to congenital portal hypoplasia) had protein C's in that range; and 88% of dogs with shunts dogs had Protein C's below 70%. Most dogs with liver failure had low numbers. Dogs with other liver diseases fell in the normal or abnormal range. S
o, the test is not completely accurate and should be coupled with other tests to be sure there's a shunt. Currently our dogs with MVD/CPH have very low Protein Cs and we don't know if it is the way we are running our test or whether we are seeing dogs with MVD/CPH that are much more severely affected.