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01-07-2014, 07:28 AM | #1 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: New Hartford, NY USA
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| Avascular Narcosis Hi everyone! This is my first post to this forum. I have been reading so much on here and have learned a lot. I am an owner of a little femal Morkie named Lola....please don't kick us out...she looks just like the rest of you, just floppy ears! lol I am sick over her recent diagnoses of Avascular Narcosis and am wondering if there is anyone here that has experienced this with their Yorkie. She is only 7 months old. I absolutely adore this little girl and am hoping we can get the blood flow back to her bone so she will not need surgery to remove the ball. I have an excellent vet I trust completely! Laser surgery, PT and anti-inflammatory meds are what we are doing. She already has bone that has died. Please, if anyone can help my girl, I would be so very grateful! |
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01-07-2014, 09:01 AM | #2 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Texas
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| Poor Lola, I'm sorry for what both of you are going through. I have never heard of anything that would stop that process, but I do hope what your vet is trying is successful. There are many here that have had their pups go through the surgery you are trying to avoid, and their pups have done VERY well after the surgery. So, either way, Lola has something that is fixable.
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01-07-2014, 11:09 PM | #3 |
YorkieTalk Newbie! Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: USA
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| Poor baby. I hope they can help him. I have avascular necrosis in my R hip from taking steroids used to treat lupus. I chose to treat it using a protocol from a clinical trial study from the University if South Florida using hyperbaric oxygen therapy that I found after researching online. I had 60 treatments daily from December 2011-Apr 2012. I am pain free and it stabalized the AVN. No hip replacement needed. I know this may not be feezible with a pet but thought I would share another method of treatment being used today. |
01-08-2014, 06:45 AM | #4 |
Donating YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Oakland County MI
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| sorry to hear of your situation, this is a new condition to me as far as dogs go so I can't offer any specific help. However on a side note one time I broke a bone in my foot and it just refused to heal, so after three months the ortho set me up with an electronic bone stimulator. I had to wear it 10 hours a day for three months and the bone healed like it was never broken. It worked because the stimulator increased blood flow which increased bone growth. It would be great if they had something like that for dogs, but I would think keeping it on would be a challenge. Best of luck to you, I guess on the positive side in my sort time just reading about it, it seems like in small dogs the surgery offers some good results.
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01-08-2014, 07:52 AM | #5 |
Resident Yorkie Nut Donating YT 20K Club Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Texas
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| I believe you mean avascular necrosis? This is usually a very painful condition and dead bone cannot be fixed any other way than surgery. I highly recommend that you have a consult with an orthopedic surgeon for a second opinion. If they are talking about FHO surgery, it really is not as awful as it sounds; and the pups usually do very well. I have had a few that had it over the years. Two of my personal pups had it.
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