A bile acid test is what I would recommend. with this test if the readings come out very high you can suspect a definate liver problem. With my shunt girl, the bile acid test had readings over 300, and the university that did the surgery re-did the bile acid and then did more testing to diagnose that it was definately a shunt, but the first bile acid did put off the alarm. I have all my dogs, and every puppy I produce bile acid tested before I sell any of them. Liver shunt is a genetic problem, and puppies are born with it. True, the DNA marker has not been identified yet, but it is known that it is passed down through the linage of the dogs. |