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Sorry, query from a friend: the vet says her 11 week old kitten has a blood vessel from intestine, should be going to heart via liver but bypassing so presumably poisoning his system. Kitten is half size of his brother, not v playful but eats and poos fine.

Vet says op will cost 4 grand-she has insurance up to that. Query is, will kitten be fine after and anyone have experience of a similar condition?

Thanks.
 
Presume they mean liver shunt? Heard of dogs with it but not cats.

Dog I know of is always a little under weight, on a prescription diet and often has stomach upsets. Not as energetic as others dogs.
 
Britestar said:
Presume they mean liver shunt? Heard of dogs with it but not cats.

Dog I know of is always a little under weight, on a prescription diet and often has stomach upsets. Not as energetic as others dogs.
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Yes, this was mentioned. Can this be diagnosed without an internal investigation/MRI/scan?

Did the dog have an operation to correct it? What I'd like to know is will the cat be (reasonably) OK without an op or is it essential to operate?
 
Very risky surgery, but generally in smaller animls, cats, small breed dogs the better the chance of survival, the recovery is crucial and its a shock to the system, and the animals physical state/stages of deterioration have to be taken into account (state of the animals health at the time of op) and the type of shunt but it needs to be done either way, hence the vets advice to get the op done, I had a post op shunt patient in on my last shift, sadly he did not make it, he was a small breed dog, but was in a pretty bad way b4 surgery.
A specialist vet is the way forward.
 
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