Hello idereen!
(Dit bericht is in het engels, omdat was gestuurd ook naar K9kidney forum, als het moest, zal ik hem proberen te vertelen...)
My ten year old male/uncastrated saluki Bura got visible problems on 22/02/08 when he started peeing blood what lasted 3 days long. Since than he s peeing normal (seen with bare eye).
All the test (blood/urine/echo of other organs/x-rays) where ok. Echo showed that his left kidney is totally abnormal and needle biopsy showed that was full with bloody fluid (reason for blood peeing)/ no cancerogene cells.
Advise was to operativelly remove the left kidney.
I went for a second opnion to University cliniek in Utrecht- echo was donne again, showing almost the same (this time was also visible that urine tube that s connected to kidney is full/blocked with some material, and enlarged).
Since is not possible to determine the cause of such extreme anomaly of the left kidney (it can be from injury- Bura had a heavy car excident 6 years ago/ but it can also be a cancer...) at this stage, operation is advised.
Now we are going to Utrecht, to still do a renogram, and on 18/03/08 already we have a term for operation for removal of the kidney:
Im in a very taugh/stressfull time of making (right) descizion, to do operation or not: Bura is a windhond, ten years old, and the success of the operation is rated to 60-70%, so the risk is quite big!!!, but if its a cancerogen problem, to wait it can be a cruscial fault!
On the other hand, on him, nothing is visible- he is in excellent shape/doing fine, tottaly looking as usual/normal...(since probably the right kidney is working normal)!!!!
Some people (that are for holistic way of treating illness) are against such a radical and harsh aproach advising me to not to operate, and try with holistic treatment!!...
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I would be so gratefull to hear from you any advice on this issue (as soon as possible!!), or of any simmilar case- If you operated your dog, where did you donne it and how it all went...how was recovery and the life postoperative...If not operating- what you did!!!
Looking forevard, anxiously, for your answers!!
Many greetings,
Shana Karamarko