Shunt Surgery

[Yorkieluv]

Originally Posted by belindaY

Be very careful with this. A few things I've seen lately are making me wonder if liver shunt surgery is some new fad or something. Seems like a Yorkie only needs to sneeze and diagnosis is automatically liver shunt. Sorry, it's alarming and I'm reading good stuff that suggests that a lot of Yorkies live just fine with their shunts and MVD, and some with slightly elevated bile acid have no liver disease at all, sometime the high biles are due to some minor little intestinal disturbance. READ UP ON THIS AND BE CAREFUL

In this case, I think the original poster was saying that they went in for exploratory surgery to look for something that may be stuck in his GI tract, but they did not find anything. From what I read, it does not look like they were doing liver shunt surgery, it seems like they were doing surgery to look for something in the GI tract..

[tiger63]

Again I thank you, this has been trying to say the least.

My wife and me took Harry to Mandeville this morning he had had a good night and did not vomit his boiled patotes with Brumels Spred and was on top of his game.

His insisions from the previous surgery had become infected and other tests for shunt markers was not conclusive. We elected to have the doctor try to
correct the infected stiching there was no indication he was infected on the
inside areas of his intestines, just the external skin area.

Frankly we were at the end of our ability to pay for more extensive procedures and would give him this aditional chance. As it turned out when they attempted to correct the outer skin level they found it fused with the next layer and the doctor went ahead and did the internal intestine procedure (+/-) 2500 dollars for no additional charge.

He reported that he found nothing wrong inside his little stomach and we are hoping the origional surgery was the problem, and has been corrected.

There was no further shunt discussion.

This has been a rough day and we hope to get Harry back in a day or so.

Thank all of you for your thoughts and imput.

[katelin]

I'm so sorry your little guy is having all of these problems. Hopefully, there won't be anything else and he will recover without incident. We all have our limits, and it was so great that the surgeon took care of this additional surgery without cost to you.

Best wishes for a speedy, uneventful recovery.