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Originally Posted by Ladymom  If the blood was hemolyzed, the test needs to be repeated:
This is from Dr. Center, the developer of the bile acids test: Results can be falsely abnormal if the bile acid samples are lipemic (lots of fat IF the fat is not adequately removed by the laboratory analyzing the sample) or if hemolysis (burst red blood cells, makes the plasma red) occurs. The red color interferes with the color of the end point dye in the bile acid test. A clinician can tell if the sample is hemolyzed when they centrifuge the sample to separate the red blood cells from the plasma. If it is hemolyzed they should collect another sample. PSVA and MVD Research Summary
I would try not to panic at this point. Since she's due for vaccines tomorrow, I'd wait another 30 days to retest her. |
yep i agree i would not panic unless those numbers were over 100 as my dog was post 73 the first time did what you are doing and she is fine on low protein diet but she did not have the symptoms you describe though but i still think low protein diet will help
join these groups and read the files, links, etc and they know a ton on this stuff.
DogLiverDisease : Dog Liver Disease Liver_Shunt_And_MVD_Support : Liver Shunt & MVD/HMD Support
I personally am not a fan of protein c test nor liver biopsy myself after all the reading i have done on this-- and not a fan of ultrasound for this either as too hard to see and waste of money
if the numbers were well over 100 on a retest then i would go straight to scintigraphy
are you close to university of tennessee?
I think with the lowered protein your little one will be ok
what was the protein count on the food you were feeding as dogs with symptoms should be on 18% and no symptoms but high numbers 22% so if you were feeding 30-40% protein diet this could have caused those symptoms
dr tobias and dr centers are the experts on this disease and dr tobias assistant is on that second group above