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Originally Posted by Ellie May  Since he has been on such a low protein diet and has urate stones, he needs to see an internist. Ultrasounds are good for some things related to liver and bladder issues, but it is sometimes hard to diagnose a shunt with one. Skipping to a scintography ma be a cheaper option because you may have to have one done even with a "normal" ultrasound.
Five thousand dollars is an extremely high estimate for PSS surgery. There are places that will do it cheaper (UT) if that's the diagnosis. If there is a shunt present (and there may not be), prognosis is probably poor without surgery, esp. with bladder involvement, etc. The surgery does have risks, but in the right hands, there is a very good chance that things will go just fine.  |
It is 4,000 in california
This is why my friend flew to UofT to tobias for surgery
Could you take a vacation to UofT for a week? I think Ronda (ronlynn) went on a thursday and was home on a tuesday or something like that - check out her posts you will see her helping some liver shunt pups recently on this so go to profile then look at recent posts
Ronlynn on here is the one that flew from cali to UofT and i want to say the surgery was 1600-1800 total. I think she did scintigraphy here though. I know here scintigraphy was $394 as they wanted dd to have it done at the place i posted the link but her bats were below 100 and on low protein are now 26. She was 73 post on first one.
06-17-2010, 08:32 PM
