Chronic Renal failure

[Blousey]

My beloved Scottish Terrier who is age 5 is suffering from chronic renal failure. His left kidney has atrophied and the right is failing. She is now on a drip and antibiotics, renal failure this time possibly an acute episode triggered by infection. I hear that renal transplant is possible in USA and Canada.. Guelp in ontario? UC Davies in Canada? Now I know I need a donor and my golden retriever could possibly be one. any other options? Any cadeveric donors like humans ? Any other choice of places? I am based all the way in Hong Kong...

[chihuawa10]

The auburn vet has yet to have one that worked. All the animals suffered badly and the vet school still charged the owners 20,000 USD. The donor dogs also suffered... you can contact PETA to get more info on it.
We have had two 2  year old Chihuahuas die from it. They seemed very well off and happy until the end. They saw an internal medicine specialist at auburn university for about 1.5 years before they were put down.

Chihuahua Rescue

[aggieone]

I know what you mean about your baby seeming normal a week ago.  Sandy Grace was fine and then she started throwing up, we took her to our vet thinking she had a virus.  When our vet called us the same day to tell us she was in renal failure, we were devastated.

Auburn University's College of Vetinary Medicine was one place the specialist suggested that we contact, but in the same breath she told us she had not heard of any success thus far with kidney transplants for dogs.  At least you could give them a call.   Let us know and keep us posted  as to how both of you are doing.   Aggieone

[Blousey]

Thank you very much for your concern. I called UC Davies, New York Animal Medical Center, Unversity of Ontario and none of them do transpnat anymore. I am in Hong Kong and unfortunately they do not have renal dlalysis here. Being a doctor myself it makes even harder for me as I know that she will eventually give in. The hard part is she is still so young only being age 5. I am trying to go on the web to see if there is anywhere in Asia which has renal dialysi for dogs.. but really in vain. Right now I am looking after her myself, similarly she is a little tired but still alert and wagging her tail.. obviously vomits occasionally..
Only about 1 week ago she seemed so normal...

Blousey

[aggieone]

I am so sorry to hear your baby is in renal failure.  We lost our baby Sandy Grace  (a beautiful yellow lab) to renal kidney failure on February 6.  It is so very hard.  We took Sandy Grace to a specialist and she told us that she had not heard of any transplants in dogs that had been successful.  She said the studies she had done showed that many times they have not made it through surgery, and for others died soon after surgery.    She did not recommend the surgery, but she also wanted to euthanize Sandy that day.  Sandy was still eating and drinking; walking around, wagging her tail, and was very alert.  Other than the vomiting,  she seemed to be in good spirits.  We told her it was not time for Sandy to leave us so we took her home.  We were fortunate to spend close to seven more weeks with her.  We also took her to another vet who practiced orthodox, hollistic and homeopathic treatments.  That worked a short while.    We gave her fluids at home for several weeks, in fact until she started refusing food and water,  when that happened, I told her I would not stick her again.  She was tired and ready to go.

I hope you can research and find  success stories with transplants for dogs.  Talk to as many specialists as you can and get their opinions.

Go to my journals, click on view journals, and sort by comments, there you will see her story.  I think it will help you as you travel this journey.  

Good luck, I hope you find many success stories of kidney transplants for our babies.  

Let us hear from you as to how your baby is doing.   I can truly say, if you stay on this site, you will find that the support here is wonderful.   Aggieone