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Originally Posted by Lorraine  She is still pretty young and mucous stools with blood in it does not mean MVD or Liver shunt. She could have an intestinal upset and may just need an antibiotic, usually metrondiazonal is prescribed. An inflammed bowel or putting them on an antibiotic will cause an elevated Bile Acid reading and mislead you into thinking mvd or LS. Has she been wormed for any intestinal parasites? they are not always shed until the worming and then you can see them come out a day or two later.
Are there symptoms of MVD or Liver shunt? A soft mucousy stool is not enoug to suspect it although Vets of 20 years ago jumped to that conclusion. Head pressing, anarexia, circling would be LS symptoms. MVD are not usually that dramatic.
The only definitive way to know for sure liver shunt is with colour doplar where dye is injected into the circulation to the liver and ultra sound is used to track the dye. BA's are too randomly wrong. Stress of blood draws, incorrect blood draws, other illnesses, recent medications especially the sulpha group will all produce a high BA that is a false reading. |
Just want to say that there are not always symptoms. My Teddy Bear who I have had for 7 years just had surgery for LS. He developed bladder stones and during that surgery they found the shunt. Teddy never had one symptom and had seven years of perfectly normal blood tests.