Not exact matches
TPE is an apheresis (removal of impurities from
blood) treatment in which plasma contaminated
with damaging auto - antibodies, toxins or
abnormal proteins is separated from the patient's
flowing blood and exchanged
with donor plasma that is returned to the patient to render the patient less susceptible to or free from immunologic attack or other pathologic processes.
Some Greyhounds are born
with or develop a heart murmur (
abnormal flow of
blood through the heart).
There are advanced imaging methods that are excellent for identifying
abnormal liver
blood flow (as in portosystemic shunts) that account for a large portion of the pets
with HE that you can read about here.
A heart murmur is an
abnormal sound heard on physical exam
with a stethoscope, which develops when
blood flow in the heart or great vessels is turbulent.