Posted: May 29, 2012 1:39 pm
Thanks again, Chris! That is his older brother in my avatar. Charley is my black Scottish terrier.
When he had an ultrasound recently the vet said his gallbladder looked good and his adrenal glands looked normal. The only thing off was his liver. She said it was a normal size without irregular margins. It just looked "slightly bright" and had a couple of nodules. Then when they saw it during the biopsy they said it was mottled looking and bumpy in some areas.
He does have CUPS which is chronic ulcerative paradental stomatitis. It is an autoimmune disease where the body rejects the teeth. He had to have all his teeth removed and he had a bit of a jaw infection with it. That was hell. He is much better now and has adapted to living toothless pretty well.
His regular vet is puzzled. He is thinking Charley might have some weird kind of autoimmune hepatitis since he had the CUPS thing. We were hoping treating him with medicine would help, but it didn't so we went for the biopsy.
Thank you so much for taking time to give me some ideas about what could be going on with him. I will post the results of his biopsy when they come in.
When he had an ultrasound recently the vet said his gallbladder looked good and his adrenal glands looked normal. The only thing off was his liver. She said it was a normal size without irregular margins. It just looked "slightly bright" and had a couple of nodules. Then when they saw it during the biopsy they said it was mottled looking and bumpy in some areas.
He does have CUPS which is chronic ulcerative paradental stomatitis. It is an autoimmune disease where the body rejects the teeth. He had to have all his teeth removed and he had a bit of a jaw infection with it. That was hell. He is much better now and has adapted to living toothless pretty well.
His regular vet is puzzled. He is thinking Charley might have some weird kind of autoimmune hepatitis since he had the CUPS thing. We were hoping treating him with medicine would help, but it didn't so we went for the biopsy.
Thank you so much for taking time to give me some ideas about what could be going on with him. I will post the results of his biopsy when they come in.