Hi there!
So, my oldest cat got diagnosed with early stage of CKD a month ago. Yesterday we were at the vets to check her kidney values to see, if it’s increasing, or dropping or staying the same after medication and diet changes. Luckily, they have dropped a little bit, which is a good sign, yay!
But we also checked her liver values. All within the normal range, except ALT. It’s twice high, 157 (19-79). Her liver also was a bit enlarged on her ultrasound, but echogenicity and echostructure were normal, no signs of any tumors or something were noticed. The vet who did ultrasound also said, that the liver had poor vascular pattern (idk what that means). That was it, nothing at all, no diagnosis. My cat is almost 12, so they said like well that’s the aging problem. Duh??
What could it be? How worried should I be? (Tbh, I’m already so anxious and scared for her health) And how can I help? If you guys have some valuable resources of recommendations I’ll be super grateful
Notice that she has no symptoms of some abnormality at all
So, my oldest cat got diagnosed with early stage of CKD a month ago. Yesterday we were at the vets to check her kidney values to see, if it’s increasing, or dropping or staying the same after medication and diet changes. Luckily, they have dropped a little bit, which is a good sign, yay!
But we also checked her liver values. All within the normal range, except ALT. It’s twice high, 157 (19-79). Her liver also was a bit enlarged on her ultrasound, but echogenicity and echostructure were normal, no signs of any tumors or something were noticed. The vet who did ultrasound also said, that the liver had poor vascular pattern (idk what that means). That was it, nothing at all, no diagnosis. My cat is almost 12, so they said like well that’s the aging problem. Duh??
What could it be? How worried should I be? (Tbh, I’m already so anxious and scared for her health) And how can I help? If you guys have some valuable resources of recommendations I’ll be super grateful
Notice that she has no symptoms of some abnormality at all