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Originally Posted by gemy  Please do a search here on LS. First unless there is a very experienced ultrasound person in LS assessment, the premiere choice is a scintography to see the liver. Your vet should have given you pre/post Bile acid numbers.
If I had one of this readings I'd be off to the Univ of Tennessee to do the pre op work. They are the experts. Also if I'm not mistaken Univ of Penn has a premiere ER hospital. Anything like that is better than a regular vet.
And for your info, you should have as a normal course over your puppy's life had blood work done, and BATS done. BATS are recommended to do at 16 wks then six months.
I'm serious here, don't waste money go to the experts in the field for ddx'd and treatment/surgery. |
Thanks
Okay, so I need to find an experienced person in this area...I'm in PA so I'm guessing U of Penn would be closer. What is a 'pre op work'? 'ddx'd' ? I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with the acronyms and I need to get their meanings right so that I can do the proper research on them
Yeah, Nicky's had blood work done a few times over the course of his 4 years and that's why I'm confused. This is the first time this shows up
In fact, I'm looking at my agenda and an annual checkup in 2009 for him included blood work for liver (I just scribbled it here, but don't have the full notes)
Not sure what a BAT is, but everything our vets recommend, we do. So if it's a regular test, we must have had it done. I just don't have everything in memory, but we have lots and lots of vet receipts I would have to go over to see if it was done
They have the procedures, tests, meds, etc recorded in them.
I will choose experts