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Originally Posted by HollyYorkie I just found this board, I'm trying to help my parents make a decision regarding their five year old Yorkie.
She has a collapsing trachea. They've tried to manage it via weight mgmt and off and on medicines (steroids) but it has gotten to the point where none of this is helping. They thought she was going to die last night, she could barely breathe. They've seen countless vets. They've done one surgery, to shorten an elongated palate ($1200) and it did not help. The doctor says the only thing left is a surgery to insert a stent. It would be about $4000.
Has anyone here had this done to their Yorkie or know of a Yorkie that has had the surgery? Was the surgery successful? How many years did they have their Yorkie afterwards?
It is a lot of money, but she is only 5 years old. If they can be given more years with her, it would be worth it.
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1st off let me say how sorry I am about your baby. I know this is very tramatic for you both.
On a sadder note. I get literally hundreds of calls every month, since my website is so large and informative and people calling to ask my advice. I hate to say that I personally have never heard of a totally sucessful surgery. There was some hope for a new procedure a couple years ago but to no avail. Sometimes they live for a year or so, but that is the most I hear. Now on another note, usually I get calls from people asking for help with their dog, not too many people call me otherwise because they are not researching the problem so maybe there are cases where the dog lives full term and I only hear the bad ones.
Maybe a suggestion here. Ask the specialist for some recommendations on success stories that you can call and talk to them. I think also it might have a little to do with how much it's collapsed. Not having had a collapsed trachea I'm not positive if there is a difference in the surgery results though. Much luck to you.