liver failure??

[lurchergirl2 0]

Thought i wld post this seperatley to my post refering to old age, but has anyone else had a dog with liver failure that has fully recovered, i am finding it hard to find anyone that has had the same happen to there dog.

[rob190364 2,594]

Thought i wld post this seperatley to my post refering to old age, but has anyone else had a dog with liver failure that has fully recovered, i am finding it hard to find anyone that has had the same happen to there dog.

Don't know if the same applies to liver failure but when my mastiff was diagnosed with kidney failure last year they said that 9 times out of 10 the dog doesn't show symptoms until it's too late to do anything about it. On Wednesday he was running around with the pup, on Thursday he was wobbly on his legs so I took him straight to the vets, can't remember what it was they measured in his blood but whatever it was it was 9 times the normal level, they put him on a drip overnight but it barely affected the results, he had virtually no kidney function left at all and when I took him home on the Saturday he could barely walk and he just went rapidly downhill. I had him pts on the Tuesday morning. Absolutely devestating how quickly those sort of diseases hit an otherwise perfectly healthy animal.

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Thought i wld post this seperatley to my post refering to old age, but has anyone else had a dog with liver failure that has fully recovered, i am finding it hard to find anyone that has had the same happen to there dog.

 

If it has gone so far that the liver has actually failed then recovery isn't possible. If it is liver disease or problems then there is a chance of survival providing at least 10% of the liver is still functioning.

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Rob i know exactly were you are coming from with kidney failure, our old dog had this and was put to sleep in oct 2009, it was a routine blood and urine test that was done as he was losing weight for no reason, his blood levels were saying he should be barely living but he just kept going until we got up on a friday morning and he was just stood shaking and looking very ill, he still tried to keep going but by sat he could'nt stand and so was put to sleep at home on the sunday, it was this sunday that the other dog became ill with his liver, it was all very strange how it happened and it was suggested to the vet could they have both been poisoned in some way, but they said no, no evidence of poisoning, and that kidney and liver failure are two very different things, Luckily he has fully recovered, i am so sorry you lost your dog i know how hard it is ours was only 10 and we believed after a very healthy life, never in the vets for anything other than routine checks, he would live forever.

 

He was scanned on his liver and we were told it was all completly damaged, but he now has 30% liver function which is the minimum they need to survive.