AshJack170921
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Hey, I posted the other day about my dogs back legs. Our vet isn’t too concerned, given that he’s been like this for a year and the progression has been very slow. She manipulated his hind legs and he honestly just stood there and allowed her too, he’s not stiff in them, nothing moves that shouldn’t move.
I do have another question though while I wait for a phone call from our general vet.
My boy had his heart scan last Friday and the scan has shown no progression in his heart disease for the last 2 years, he’s still stable at B2 but his bloods came back yesterday and the part that concerns me is, his NT-proBNP has over doubled since 6 months ago, his markers are 2830 pmol/L and his cardiac troponin has mildly increased to 0.153 ng/mL. So his BNP markers are high enough that he’d be classed as CHF now but given there’s no change to his heart measurements we obviously know this isn’t the case, he isn’t coughing, he isn’t struggling to breathe. No signs of CHF and no measurements of CHF either so my question is, can kidney disease increase this markers? Or is there anything else that can increase them?
Thank you
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