Is this a shunt?


  • 11 year old FN Terrier with decreased appetite and weight loss, mild-mod increased liver enzymes
  • Normal liver and kidney size, no stones
  • It is not fitting with a shunt but I thought I saw an abnormal vessel
  • Also could not find reason for weight loss
  • Is this vasculature normal?

  • 11 year old FN Terrier with decreased appetite and weight loss, mild-mod increased liver enzymes
  • Normal liver and kidney size, no stones
  • It is not fitting with a shunt but I thought I saw an abnormal vessel
  • Also could not find reason for weight loss
  • Is this vasculature normal?

3 responses to “Is this a shunt?”

  1. Prominent blood vessel with

    Prominent blood vessel with no real turbulant flow. If worried about a shunt consider doing bile acids.

  2. its an abnormal vbessel but

    its an abnormal vbessel but with hepatopedal flow away from the liver. I would be concerned for secondary shunting but there is a rare shunt (name escapes me) that terminates caudally in the cvc near the iliacs and its a funtional shunt. You dont ligate it.

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